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OBAMA ADMIN PRESSURING JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR TO ALLOW CONTRACEPTION MANDATE
Catholic Vote ^ | January 3, 2014 | STEVE SKOJEC

Posted on 01/03/2014 9:09:40 AM PST by NYer

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To: Jonty30
She must have a very small file to blackmail her with if they haven’t bent her will by now.

It is not difficult to believe that the NSA had, and used, the goods on John Roberts.

41 posted on 01/03/2014 10:07:44 AM PST by bkopto (Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
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To: DSH

thanks for clearing it up....


42 posted on 01/03/2014 10:12:27 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: T Ruth

Do not also forget about Roberts all thought HE was a constitutionalist
juror and look what happened! Do not also forget the Catholic Church
was totally behind this health care law UNTIL THEY got bitten by the
fleas from the dog they laid down with! I believe Sotomayor is probably
a Catholic first, Catholic church BELIEVES in social justice, just not
birth control! I am Catholic and have many ill feeling where the church is
concerned!


43 posted on 01/03/2014 10:15:27 AM PST by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: NYer

OBAMACARE IS ANOTHER OF OBAMA’S HIDEOUS MORALLY INDEFENSIBLE POLICY ON ABORTION.

“Obama, the man who is carrying out the slaughter of the innocents with the same enthusiasm as Herod and Pharaoh calls for us to find a way to live together as one human family. “

THE BLOWBACK OF NOTRE DAME

Exclusive: Joseph Farah flays Obama
for lecturing Catholics about abortion

May 18, 2009
By Joseph Farah
________________________________________
As if to rub salt in the wound opened by Notre Dame’s invitation to deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary degree yesterday, Barack Obama lectured Catholics about abortion.

He said it’s time for common ground on the issue and an approach to the life-and-death debate with “open hearts, open minds and fair-minded words.”

I suppose that’s understandable.

If I were presiding over a public policy that called for the murder of unborn babies for any reason or no reason at all, that provided mandatory public funding of those procedures both domestically and in foreign countries, that required doctors and nurses to perform abortions even if they were conscientiously opposed, that permitted experimentations on living human embryos, that promoted even partial-birth abortions outside the womb and that called for the extermination of infants who somehow defied all the odds and managed to survive efforts to kill them before birth, I guess I would want to frame the debate in such a way as to diminish the hideous monstrousness of my morally indefensible.

He doesn’t really want people who recognize what abortion is to approach the debate with “open hearts.” He wants us to harden our hearts.

We won’t do that.

The only hearts and minds being opened in this debate and the hearts and minds of little innocents – sliced open surgically in the most barbaric fashion because of activist judges exceeding their authority and morally bankrupt politicians like Obama and his cohorts in the Congress.

These are the most “fair-minded words” I can muster to describe Obama’s efforts at soft-pedaling his own bloody and extremist policies on abortion.

Obama said: “Each side will continue to makes its case to the public with passion and conviction. But surely we can do so without reducing those with differing views to caricature.”

Let me translate this for you.

“Now that my side in this debate is in control of all the levers of power and is enforcing its will on the other side, it’s time for a nice civil dialogue on abortion.”
That’s what Obama would like.

Let me be the first to say, “No way, buster!”

You want to kill babies? You’re going to have to accept the consequences of righteous moral indignation. You’re going to have to accept being called out for what you are doing. You’re going to have to accept the conviction that comes with the abomination of child sacrifice. Your going to have to accept being labeled for what you are.

Obama even acknowledged he knows what this debate is all about – characterizing abortion as a “heart-wrenching” decision for any woman.

Why is abortion a “heart-wrenching” decision for a mother?
Because it’s a decision to kill one’s child – materialistic reasons, for reasons of convenience.

It should be “heart-wrenching” to decide to kill one’s child.

Obama’s policies are meant to remove the guilt, remove the consequences of irresponsible decisions, remove the issue of right and wrong, remove even the “choice” of those who disagree with him not to participate in any way in the slaughter at the altar of Baal.

“We must find a way to live together as one human family,” he said in closing.

That’s quite a statement.

The man who is carrying out the slaughter of the innocents with the same enthusiasm as Herod and Pharaoh calls for us to find a way to live together as one human family.

How do we learn to live together as one human family when our offspring are being sacrificed to false gods and man-made religions?

How do we learn to live together as one human family when it means accepting coercion into active participation in the worst kind of evil perversion?

How does one live with oneself if it means tolerance of the intolerable?

No, I won’t play that game.
No, I won’t play by Obama’s rules.


44 posted on 01/03/2014 10:15:30 AM PST by Dqban22
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To: Sacajaweau
This is something that should never be.

Agreed. If Obama's Justice Department has a legal argument to present to the SC on this matter, that's one thing. Attempting to pressure the courts through the media and berating the SC justices to their faces at State of the Union addresses (as Obama successfully did) are unethical practices which show either an ignorance of the separation of powers or a complete disregard for it.
45 posted on 01/03/2014 10:25:21 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: BitWielder1
Pressuring a Judge? Isn't that, like, you know ... illegal?

The Judicial Branch has become Legislative and totally ignore the Constitution in their rulings. The Executive Branch has become Legislative. The Legislative Branch only seem to care about status quo and their "phony baloney jobs". The States and the People try rein in the madness only to get overturned by Federal Courts. The endgame is here. What will it be?

46 posted on 01/03/2014 10:26:39 AM PST by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: ViLaLuz

And Amish I believe are exempt.


47 posted on 01/03/2014 10:32:10 AM PST by SusaninOhio
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To: BitWielder1

If they are really pressuring her it would not turn up in this article.

She’d be getting dead fish in the mail, or a menacing visit from a man in a trenchcoat in the parking lot, or whatever they did to John Roberts.


48 posted on 01/03/2014 10:33:06 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: NYer
Government lawyers say the nuns’ insurance is a “church plan” that is not required to provide contraception coverage and has decided not to, so they have no legal basis to complain.

Then why did the nuns waste their time and effort to sue if they were told they didn't have to provide the coverage? Can all church organizations go to a "church plan" and forgo the contraceptive coverage?

49 posted on 01/03/2014 10:45:05 AM PST by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Kit cat

The Obama administration is not set up for compromise. In light of the Catholic church’s focus on “social justice” and it’s support of Obamacare until their own oxen were gored, one would expect the Catholic hierarchy to resume full-throated endorsement of Obamacare if only they could exempt themselves from providing abortions.

And yet the Obama administration treats the Catholixs as it does all other non-Islamic religions.


50 posted on 01/03/2014 11:15:16 AM PST by Piranha (Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have - Saul Alinsky)
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To: NYer

Thank you. You’d think if all those sects are exempted for their religious beliefs Christians can be, too.


51 posted on 01/03/2014 1:37:31 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: NYer

Obama can’t tell Sotomayor what to say or do.

Three branches of government totally separate:

Judicial
Legislative
Executive


52 posted on 01/03/2014 7:46:22 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Mercat

I read on another thread that if even one sentence is changed it all needs to go back to Congress and get voted on again........supposedly.


53 posted on 01/03/2014 7:47:41 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: NYer

Dershowitz: ‘Brilliant’ Case Led to Obamacare Contraception Delay

The case brought before the Supreme Court that led Justice Sonia Sotomayor to delay the Obamacare contraception mandate for religious groups was “brilliant,” Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz said on Thursday.

“The lawyers picked a brilliant, brilliant case to bring in front of Justice Sotomayor ... What could be more sympathetic to anybody, whether you’re Catholic or not Catholic?” Dershowitz asked on “The Steve Malzberg Show” on Newsmax TV.

“Justice Sotomayor grew up basically in the shadow of that kind of teaching — and these are nuns, who say they can’t violate their own religious principles,” he said.

http://www.newsmax.com/NewsmaxTv/sonia-sotomayor-contraception-obamacare/2014/01/02/id/544924#ixzz2pQVv7QWu


54 posted on 01/04/2014 5:02:59 AM PST by Jonah Vark (Any 5th grader knows that the Constitution declares the separation of powers.)
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To: Jonah Vark

Thank you for the posted link and ping. Obamacare should have been struck down by the Supreme Court .. period! The fact that we have selfless nuns begging for an exemption from the HHS mandate while Muslims are exempted because they believe that health insurance is “haraam” (forbidden), makes absolutely no sense. The Little Sisters of the Poor are just that ... poor! They visit parishes, begging for the funds needed to care for the poorest of the poor. Perhaps Obama views their work as competitive. The big difference is that they do this out of love for Christ vs the government who does it for votes.


55 posted on 01/04/2014 5:46:25 AM PST by NYer ("The wise man is the one who can save his soul. - St. Nimatullah Al-Hardini)
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