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Holder: 1st Amendment Allows Gov't to Force Catholics to Buy Sterilization- Contraception-Abortion
Cybercast News Service ^ | 2/29/12 | Fred Lucas

Posted on 02/29/2012 9:56:09 AM PST by Nachum

The Justice Department will defend against any legal challenge to the new Obama administration mandate to force employers to provide abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization and contraception, even if it goes against their conscience, Attorney General Eric Holder told a House subcommittee Tuesday. The Department of Health and Human Services rule, part of Obamacare, violates the freedom of conscience for Catholics and other religious groups that expressed their objections to the mandate, opponents say. Already there is litigation asserting that the rule violates the First Amendment’s guarantee to free exercise of religion.

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KEYWORDS: catholic; catholics; contraception; democrats; elections; govtabuse; holder; holdertruthfile; liberalfascism; obama; sterilization; tyranny
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Full title: Holder: 1st Amendment Allows Gov't to Force Catholics to Buy Sterilization- Contraception-Abortion Insurance
1 posted on 02/29/2012 9:56:12 AM PST by Nachum
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2 posted on 02/29/2012 9:57:17 AM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;. . . “

What part of the 1st amendment does Holder not understand?
He is a BIG a buffoon and idiot as his boss!!


3 posted on 02/29/2012 10:00:19 AM PST by Mr. Wright (N\)
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To: Nachum

Mr. Fastandfurious is getting faster and more furious all the time. This has to stop.


4 posted on 02/29/2012 10:01:53 AM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: Nachum

This bastard needs to be impeached! If we had a Congress that had a pair he would be. The facism of this regime is just incredible!!


5 posted on 02/29/2012 10:02:14 AM PST by Marathoner (In the 80s we had Reagan, Johnny Cash and Bob Hope. Now we have Obama, no cash and no hope.)
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To: Nachum

Eric holder received his law degree for the Closed Before Srikeing School of law.

That’s why he has NO clue as to what the First Amendment says.


6 posted on 02/29/2012 10:04:43 AM PST by puppypusher (The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: Nachum

2012 America:

In which the highest law enforcement official in the land doesn’t possess even a Junior High level understanding of BASIC Constitutional bedrock issues.


7 posted on 02/29/2012 10:04:51 AM PST by EyeGuy (2012: When the Levee Breaks)
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To: Mr. Wright

There is a great deal of evil at work here.


8 posted on 02/29/2012 10:04:51 AM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: Nachum

After reading the article and watching the video, I don’t think the headline is accurate. He doesn’t seem to be saying the First Amendment allows govt to force...but otoh I don’t understand WHAT he said. Homeless schizos on the NY subway have made more sense.


9 posted on 02/29/2012 10:05:21 AM PST by Lady Lucky (Gingrich 2012: Open Throttle for America)
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To: SumProVita

Re: There is a great deal of evil at work here

I could not agree more!!!!


10 posted on 02/29/2012 10:08:41 AM PST by jesseam
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To: Nachum
I look forward to the next article in this series:

Catholics: 2nd Amendment Allows Us to Protect our Hospitals from Holder's Goons

11 posted on 02/29/2012 10:09:22 AM PST by DCBryan1 (Id rather have a man who wrecked his marriage as POTUS than a man who wrecked his country!)
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To: Nachum

This administration believes it can do anything it wants without constitutional and/or congressional authorization.

See my tagline.


12 posted on 02/29/2012 10:10:19 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (When religions have to beg the gov't for a waiver, we are already under socialism.)
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To: Nachum
Holder is following the Obama script. What's next? Mandatory euthanasia for the old, sick and disabled? Conservatives banned from politics and exiled?

Nothing would be a surprise from this crowd.

13 posted on 02/29/2012 10:10:27 AM PST by JPG (Hold on tight; rough road ahead.)
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To: Nachum

He’s walking thru it. He will stink for days.


14 posted on 02/29/2012 10:14:47 AM PST by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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To: Nachum

He’s walking thru it. He will stink for days.


15 posted on 02/29/2012 10:14:53 AM PST by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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RE: "1st Amendment Allows Gov't to Force Catholics to Buy Sterilization- Contraception-Abortion,"

Up is down. black is white. war is peace....

Orwell was not a mere novelist he was a modern day prophet delivering predictions in novel form!

Welcome to the Obamanation!

16 posted on 02/29/2012 10:15:36 AM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Nachum

Congress should be recalled and indicted for misprision
of felony for allowing this travesty.

This country has been seized by coup d’etat.
Justice is a joke.

The rule of law is dead, buried in John Jay’s grave,
stabbed in the heart by SCOTUS.


17 posted on 02/29/2012 10:21:03 AM PST by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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To: DCBryan1
Holder and Obama are in a lose lose situation on this. If they back off it will infuriate the hard left of his party and without the hard left he loses the election. It will also infuriate the practicing Catholics which normally vote in the majority for the democrat party. Even the Catholics that practice birth control are angry. They are angry because of the invasion of their church by federal regulators. The abortion issue cuts across all religions and is a negative for Obama.

Other denominations are also furious about this. They see the intrusion of the government in the Catholic church and they fear they may be next.

As I said this is a lose lose for Obama.

18 posted on 02/29/2012 10:21:46 AM PST by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: DCBryan1
Holder and Obama are in a lose lose situation on this. If they back off it will infuriate the hard left of his party and without the hard left he loses the election. It will also infuriate the practicing Catholics which normally vote in the majority for the democrat party. Even the Catholics that practice birth control are angry. They are angry because of the invasion of their church by federal regulators. The abortion issue cuts across all religions and is a negative for Obama.

Other denominations are also furious about this. They see the intrusion of the government in the Catholic church and they fear they may be next.

As I said this is a lose lose for Obama.

19 posted on 02/29/2012 10:22:24 AM PST by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: Nachum

Something people need to realize: Muslims and Muslim groups are exempt from Obamacare altogether because an imam has claimed that insurance is gambling and that Islam forbids gambling.

People want to make the contraception issue about whether or not the Catholic teaching is mainstream, whether women need contraceptives, etc. But if the government is going to refuse Catholics the right to practice their religion because its views are not “mainstream”, then they should be asking whether Muslim views on insurance and/or gambling are “mainstream” - and require Muslims to participate in the “mainstream” things they despise.

But they won’t. They never will. Obama’s government will never require Muslim organizations to buy swimming suits for their women to wear around town. They will never require Muslims to buy a pork processing plant. Etc.

The real story of this Obamacare mess is seen most clearly by the fact that the government is SIDING WITH ISLAM AND AGAINST CATHOLICISM. If the government was going to remain religiously neutral then they would do the same thing for Muslims as they do for Catholics as they do for atheists as they do for Amish as they do for Hindus, etc... The Muslims objected to insurance, so the government said, “Never mind.” The Catholics objected to contraception and abortion so the government said, “You have to participate in these things anyway.”

This is a sharia-compliant law. It institutes legal preference for Islam and imposes what amounts to a dhimmi tax on non-Muslims. It affirms government protection of MUSLIM religious freedom while trashing NON-MUSLIM religious freedom.

We need to ask the right questions about this. Specifically, we need to be asking why Muslims are exempt on conscientious grounds if Catholics aren’t also exempt on conscientious grounds.


20 posted on 02/29/2012 10:24:57 AM PST by butterdezillion
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