Posted on 01/11/2010 8:23:21 PM PST by Freedom56v2
WASHINGTON — Federal health care reform will require most Northern New Yorkers — but not all, it turns out — to carry health insurance or risk a fine.
Hundreds of Amish families in the region are likely to be free from that requirement.
The Amish, as well as some other religious sects, are covered by a "religious conscience" exemption, which allows people with religious objections to insurance to opt out of the mandate. It is in both the House and Senate versions of the bill, making its appearance in the final version routine unless there are last-minute objections.
Although the Amish consist of several branches, some more conservative than others, they generally rely upon a community ethic that disdains government assistance. Families rely upon one another, and communities pitch in to help neighbors pay health care expenses.
(Excerpt) Read more at watertowndailytimes.com ...
So do you think there will be a huge influx of folks finding their "Amish roots" in 2010?!
Well Im Amish baby now.
I have to convince my husband to grow a chin beard.
I’ll be at services with you....
Remind me, Brother... what day of the week do we Amish have services?
Hey brother freepers. Don’t we have a barn to raise or something this month?
Meetcha at the barn raisin’, brother.
Between this and the Iowa bribe, it looks like the 14th Amendment is in play.
Yep, time to change my last name to Yoder and learn to churn butter!
Well early Sunday before we turn on nascar shss don’t tell anyone
This is long time 1st Amendment legal precedent for the Amish, who believe that subscribing to secular insurance policies is a denial of the provision of God. (Their customs strike some as odd but otherwise they are pretty much by-the-book Christians and they do not have disagreements with Christians who choose more modern life styles.) Instead, the Amish have private mutual agreements between themselves that play the role that insurance would otherwise play (e.g. in case of vehicle accident liability or expenses).
Easy. The communists understand that when it comes to government interference, the Amish are an intractable lot— and would create a PR nightmare if all had to be rounded up and jailed or hung as planned by demorat thugs. So they will conviently look the other way when it comes to those groups that will stand up to their attempts at domination.
Most in the vast middle-class will not seek to challenge the stealing of our liberty—and our masters know that.
Instead the Amish have NasHorse.
If the final bill includes funding for abortion, couldn’t millions of Catholics and conservative Protestants obtain “religious conscience” exemptions?
he he
I think they realized the whole shebang risked being struck down on 1st Amendment grounds just because of the Amish.
I started allowing my beard to grow just after I read this post, brother. Looking fr a flat straw hat and white shirt.
I started allowing my beard to grow just after I read this post, brother. Looking for a flat straw hat and white shirt.
Seeing as how conservative Catholics and the Vatican in particular are mucho ticked off at the abortion “compromise,” I don’t see why they can’t try.
Since ‘rats adopt ideas and ideals with all the zeal of a religion (environment, diversity, tolerance, climate-fraud, secularism - ironic isn’t it?), seems we conservatives ought to be able to claim conservatism as a religion. On that grounds, I am religiously opposed to big-government, socialist programs taking away from my liberties. So I won’t be participating, but thanks for thinking of me...
I'm there.
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