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Boxer: Insurance rights trumps religious rights
Washington Examiner ^ | 2/15/12 | W Charlie Spiering

Posted on 02/15/2012 7:58:13 AM PST by Nachum

Senator Boxer warned yesterday that if the HHS contraception mandate was repealed it would set a dangerous precedence of religious rights trumping the right to be insured. On MSNBC's Politics Nation with Al Sharpton last night, Boxer affirmed that under the proposed amendment proposed by Sen. Roy Blunt, an employer would not be forced by the government to pay for medical practices against his religion. "I mean, are they serious? Sharpton exclaimed, "How do you make a law where an employer can decide his own religious beliefs violate your right to be insured?" "Oh Absolutely," Boxer said,

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To: Nachum
Warning Graphic.. This is what the democrats are shooting for their way of birth control..Throw those precious babies out into the trash,,One day Barbra you and your Comrade's will be burning in the lake of fire..
21 posted on 02/15/2012 8:15:25 AM PST by PLD
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To: Nachum

Our education system stinks. Sure I learned about the 1st amendment. But they completely skipped the one providing “the right to be insured”. I had civics classes pretty frequently from elementary school through college and not a single one covered that part of the Constitution.


22 posted on 02/15/2012 8:17:07 AM PST by LostPassword
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To: Nachum

Is that what she’s telling the muzzies too?

Oh, wait, they’re friends of BO - pun intended.


23 posted on 02/15/2012 8:18:27 AM PST by Let's Roll (Save the world's best healthcare - REPEAL, DEFUND Obamacare!)
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To: FerociousRabbit

“No Medicine!” Only the government can say that.


24 posted on 02/15/2012 8:20:30 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Nachum

A very dangerous idiot...they are poking the American People with a stick..trying to assess the potential and threshold of violent push-back....just collecting “data” they “need” to know as they continue to assemble their virtual “Berlin Wall”....


25 posted on 02/15/2012 8:20:46 AM PST by mo
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To: PLD

26 posted on 02/15/2012 8:22:46 AM PST by PLD
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To: Nachum
Senator Boxer warned yesterday that if the HHS contraception mandate was repealed it would set a dangerous precedence of religious rights trumping the right to be insured.

Ummm...when ObamaCare kicks in and the Muslims start screaming because they don't "believe" in insurance...will this lying sack of poo come down on the same side of the argument and still maintain that insurance 'rights' trumps religious rights?

She'll flip-flop like a dying mackerel on the deck of a fishing boat.

27 posted on 02/15/2012 8:26:21 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Do all He commands. Receive all He promises.)
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To: Nachum
Our village idiot

She's no idiot!

She knows in the small minds of many people the ability to discriminate between requiring employers to pay for birth control (and soon abortions) is indistinguishable from the right to birth control.

This is a calculated attempt by the administration to focus this years debate away from the economy and on Republicans wanting to take away your rights.

28 posted on 02/15/2012 8:29:49 AM PST by CharacterCounts (November 4, 2008 - the day America drank the Kool-Aid)
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To: Nachum

If Obama were to order insurance companies to include coverage for oil changes as a basic part of every car insurance policy, and the insurance companies were to object, Barbara Boxer would say that the insurance companies are preventing people from getting oil changes.


29 posted on 02/15/2012 8:31:40 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Nachum

“How do you make a law where an employer can decide his own religious beliefs violate your right to be insured?”

How do you make a law where you can decide your own desire to be insured violates an employer’s religious beliefs?

More to the point:

How do you make a law where you can decide your own religious beliefs regarding insurance take precedence over an employer’s religious beliefs regarding insurance?

Because that’s what it is, religious belief against religious belief.


30 posted on 02/15/2012 8:32:04 AM PST by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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To: Nachum
".....right to be insured....."

Where is that "right" located in the U.S. Constitution????? I get I have a "right" to an abortion, a "right" for chicken nuggets but you've got me on this one, please help.

32 posted on 02/15/2012 8:43:38 AM PST by zerosix (native sunflower)
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To: Nachum
Nevertheless, Sharpton, Boxer and Obama will doubtless find useful idiots who will go along with this. It's not hard to drag a hundred-dollar bill through a church-related nonprofit and find a morally challenged church-related shill (I'm talking about YOU, Sister Carol Keehan).

From Henry VIII to Elizabeth I to the Nazi German Christian Movement to the Patriotic Church in China, the strategy of tyrants at war with the Catholic Church is to create a fake nationalized church docile to the will of the tyrant and to use it as a weapon against the real Church.

Obama is now attempting precisely that.

In partibus infidelium.

33 posted on 02/15/2012 8:47:29 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("God bless the child who's got his own." Arthur Herzog Jr./Billie Holiday)
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To: CaptainKrunch

Damned straight he was right!

LLS


34 posted on 02/15/2012 8:50:57 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (Hey repubic elite scumbags... jam mitt up your collective arses!)
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To: mo

Scary but true. That is exactly what they are doing over and over again.

Start with something obscure like making recess appointments while Congress is in pro forma session. A little bluster... no real objections. Good.

Move on to something a little bigger like that pesky free excercise of religion thing. Oooooh, they are stamping their feet now. No pitchforks yet though. Good.

Next, we will....???????


35 posted on 02/15/2012 8:58:19 AM PST by FerociousRabbit
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To: Nachum
Coming from a Senator, such ignorance of the provisions of the Supreme Law of the United States--the Constitution--is unthinkable!

The First Amendment's protections trump and make invalid any efforts by this so-called "progressive" Administration and its allies like Boxer to superimpose their own man-made coercively-imposed laws over "the People's" "Creator-endowed" (therefore, unalienable) rights.

Boxer is either ignorant of the majesty and supremacy of the Constitution's protections against persons like her who achieve positions of power in government, or she relies on what she believes to be the ignorance of the electorate.

36 posted on 02/15/2012 8:59:30 AM PST by loveliberty2
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To: loveliberty2
Boxer is either ignorant of the majesty and supremacy of the Constitution's protections against persons like her who achieve positions of power in government, or she relies on what she believes to be the ignorance of the electorate.

Boxer doesn't give a damn about the Constitution. To her, like Obama, it is nothing more than a hurdle to be overcome.

As for the ignorance of the electorate - her belief is well founded. After all, the electorate has been putting these shysters in office on a regular basis for the past 80 years.

The Democrats long ago came to understand something conservatives never seem to get: One half the population have lower than average IQ's.

37 posted on 02/15/2012 9:06:56 AM PST by CharacterCounts (November 4, 2008 - the day America drank the Kool-Aid)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

No confusion at all. The left knows their voting block has no clue what is in the constitution. So when they spout this idiocy they fully expect the idiots to believe the constitution contains a right to be insured. Its by design. Or they could just be idiots themselves.


38 posted on 02/15/2012 9:07:21 AM PST by Bruinator ("For socialism is not merely the labour question, it is before all things an atheistic question")
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To: Nachum
Religion is protected by the 1st Amendment. Which amendment protects "insurance rights"? Bonehead. Resign. Waiting for you to lose your next election is too long to wait.
39 posted on 02/15/2012 9:17:38 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: Nachum

I’m kind of proud of Boxer...2nd place in the working group at Westminster this year!


40 posted on 02/15/2012 9:20:33 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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