Posted on 12/28/2012 3:51:29 AM PST by Olog-hai
An attorney for Hobby Lobby Stores said Thursday that the arts and crafts chain plans to defy a federal mandate requiring it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill, despite risking potential fines of up to $1.3 million per day.
Hobby Lobby and religious book-seller Mardel Inc., which are owned by the same conservative Christian family, are suing to block part of the federal health care law that requires employee health-care plans to provide insurance coverage for the morning-after pill and similar emergency contraception pills. The companies claim the mandate violates the religious beliefs of their owners. …
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1.3 Million dollars a day in fines.
Now that’s what I call a heavy duty fine.
You might call that cruel and unusual.
A fine like that should put them out of business and the Obama administration has helped us grow the unemployment line.
Between this and the coming attacks on the 2nd, we are living it what may be very interesting times.
“I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical”...Thomas Jefferson
If the family owns the businesses outright, they should fire the entire employee slate and sell off the assets.
The termination letters should read “Those of you employees who insist on your right to murder unborn souls have caused you to lose your job. Please direct your complaints to the government.”
Congress shall make NO law . . .
Congress shall make NO law . . .
CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW . . .
CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW . . .
CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW . . .
First Amendment.
Especially in this case regarding the second clause of that amendment. This is persecution on basis of religion that has been instituted by the federal government. Where is Justice Roberts on this matter . . . ?
Liberty is under attack on so many fronts it is hard to keep track. Until we get the tyrannical administrative state under control our slide into the despotic abyss is assured.
Messenger: All that God-King Xerxes requires is this: a simple offering of earth and water. A token of Sparta’s submission to the will of Xerxes.
King Leonidas: Submission? Well that’s a bit of a problem.
Make that nominally-Catholic Sebelius who stands as heretical to the doctrine of her own church.
> nominally-Catholic Sebelius who stands as heretical to the
> doctrine of her own church.
Why hasn’t she been publicly excommunicated?
Why haven’t any of the Catholics who vote in favor of prenatal infanticide been publicly communicated?
The Roman Catholic Church has no problems publicly excoriating “heartless” conservatives who would trim social programs, but I don’t remember hearing anything from the Church naming heretics like Sibelius or Biden or any of the Kennedys.
They gave bloody Ted Kennedy a Catholic burial!! An unrepentant drunk, adulterer, and murderer, as well as promoter of prenatal infanticide!
They should thwart enforcement, not pay the fines, etc, and MAKE the Feds take physical action against them.
So you say you wanna revo loo shun, well, ya know...
~ U.S. Constitution, Amendment 8.
May we all be as courageous in the face of this persecution as it comes closer to us. God bless and protect these business owners.
They are Oklahoman’s. Right next to Texan’s in toughness!
GOD bless Hobby Lobby, and to you-know-where with the Kenyan POS.
Christians are being martyred. Obamacare will cause people to lose everything if they stand up for their Christian faith and refuse to participate in the murder of the unborn. It remains to be seen if our rights under the First Amendment will be upheld by the Supreme Court or not & they’ve already failed the test with Obamacare so I wouldn’t be placing any bets on them to ‘save us’ on this either. Obama knows he is doing this .... and I suspect he’s quite satisfied with the situation. How far will Americans let him push before they push back? We can’t rely on Congress to push back ... Obamacare NEVER should have been passed. The Supreme Court NEVER should have upheld it. For that matter, Obama NEVER should have been elected in the first place. Now he’s going to go after our guns. Will America submit? We’re down to the last straw, folks.
The fines are based on violation per employee. On that basis they are not excessive. The total is the result of collective violations.
This is not over. The Supremes turned it down and the ruling of the lower court stands. It will be refiled on a stronger basis.
The ruling turned down a request for an injunction. That would not resolve the issue one way or the other and might actually confuse it.
That is my interpretation of what I heard on the news
Hobby Lobby could shrug.....
Pay out employees and head to Galt’s Gulch...
Does not $1.3 million/day constitute “UNUSUAL” as defined in the ban on Cruel and Unusual punishment?
Under the “daffy-nition” of Cruel and Unusual punishment:
Such punishment as would amount to torture or barbarity, any cruel and degrading punishment not known to the Common Law, or any FINE, PENALTY, confinement, or treatment that is so disproportionate to the offense as to shock the moral sense of the community.
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