Posted on 01/04/2014 5:18:30 AM PST by markomalley
The US Justice Department on Friday asked the Supreme Court to throw out a challenge from a nuns' group against a birth control mandate in the Obamacare health reform law.
The Little Sisters of the Poor had asked the US high court to exempt it from the controversial birth control clause, saying that providing birth control was contrary to its religious beliefs.
The US government, in its written response, asked the court to lift the temporary block on birth control, arguing that the provision does not apply to the nuns anyway.
The Little Sisters' lawsuit is "not about the availability or adequacy of a religious accommodation," the Justice Department brief said.
Instead, the nuns group wants to "justify its refusal to sign a self-certification that secures the very religion-based exemption the objector seeks."
Justice Sonia Sotomayor had issued the temporary block on the birth control provision late Tuesday, giving the US government until Friday to provide its response.
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So the Church must now ask the secular government "permission" to actually live according to her doctrine.
Meanwhile, that formerly Catholic institution, Notre Shame, sees no issue and the "conservative" president of the USCCB grovels before the Beast.
Please, sir, may I have some more gruel?
Let’s see if Robert’s is going to sell his soul again.
And bring Sotomayor with him...
First, they came for crackers though the DOJ.
Then, they came for the LEO on the border.
Then, they came for the TEA Party through the IRS.
Then, they came for Israelis,
and Christians in Egypt and Syria.
Then, they came for Fallujah.
Now, they come for the Nuns.
Apparently there is not a femtogram of ability
in EXEMPT DC to read, or care about, the US Constitution.
By signing the document the nuns agree to the law as interpreted by the DoJ. But the law states that all health insurance must have birth control.
The only exempt groups are unions and other special interest groups.
Today the DoJ interprets the law one way, tomorrow another way.
Wonder why the law writers (Emmanual and others) felt the need to use the IRS and DoJ to enforce an extremely unpopular decision?
Interesting. Isn’t “submission” a big part of the mkoozlum thing?
Interesting. Isn’t “submission” a big part of the moozlum thing?
This "lie by abbreviation" is a method increasingly used by Legacy Media, especially in the highly-rarefied hourly news "round-ups" as something that can be explained, blamed on time constraints.
Hourly FoxNews radio is heinous in this regard.
Interesting there is no byline on this story. AFP does, however, have a reporter in DC who used to work for Slate, not an American but instead French. Stereotypical Leftist. Smug little p***k. So now we have barely post-adolescent Frenchmen explaining our country and our government to us. Thanks, AFP.
Obama’s administration is one huge attack on non-muslims. Obama’s administration is waging the biggest religious war in history. Obama and his minions hate achieving non-muslims. If you are an achieving non-muslim, you are a target of the Obama administration.
Not acceptable under any circumstance.
NEVER BELIEVE A PROVEN LIAR... EVER... AND THE US GOVERNMENT IS CONTROLLED TODAY BY THE PRINCE OF LIES.
The Little Sisters' lawsuit is "not about the availability or adequacy of a religious accommodation," the Justice Department brief said.
This is terribly worded with the obvious intent of obfuscation.
It also illuminates the role assigned to Justice Sotomayor in this little kabuki theater (see, even my own justice was unclear just how noble this ObamaCare Act was).
Wait and see...
I like the picture, but it does have the order mixed up. The first freedom mentioned in the first amendment is religion. So, the first frame should read “religion”.
If one has religious freedom then one doesn't need the government's imprimatur before that freedom can be exercised.
Obama and his thugs have declared conscientious objection dead. I wonder how many progressives understand that, if any? It appears Obama and Holder are fomenting an armed revolution. No wonder they want to disarm us.
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