Dem senators intervene in Hobby Lobby case, urge justices to deny ObamaCare exemption

foxnews.com ^ | 1/28/14 | AP/foxnews

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., who planned to make her case on the Senate floor, adamantly defended the Obama administration's side.

The same Obama Administration which said that an anti-muslim video wasn’t protected by the First Amendment?

"What's at stake in this case before the Supreme Court is whether a CEO's personal beliefs can trump a woman's right to access free or low-cost contraception under the Affordable Care Act," she said in prepared remarks.

After you have stained at the gnat of difference between a Christian belief and a belief of an individual mainstream Christian, You have to swallow the camel of the fact that the First Amendment is not a ceiling over our rights, but a floor under them:

Amendment 9 - Construction of Constitution. Ratified 12/15/1791.

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

It is a disgrace of jurisprudence to split hairs over rights articulated in the First Amendment.

BTW, the Constitution was written by people who identified with Christianity:

Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth.

The framers could have omitted reference to "the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven” had they wished to dissociate themselves from the Christian faith. But that would have been impolitic, since the electorate which they relied upon to ratify the Constitution were predominantly Christian.

[madprof98]

If our guys had any balls, they’d be calling out Murray and her groupies on the senate floor for the blackshirts they are.

Sic Mitch McConnell on them!

[Personal Responsibility]

To add onto what you’re saying:

The government should not have the power to compel him to provide contraception if it violates his religious beliefs.

[OneWingedShark]

Next headline:
‘Dem senators urge SCOTUS to crush Little Sisters of the Poor’.

Close, it'll be:
‘Not to be outdone, Repub senators urge SCOTUS to crush Little Sisters of the Poor’.

[OneWingedShark]

Well, from Article III the congress has lots of power it is too frightened to use against our runaway courts.

The power to impeach Justices, the power to dissolve inferior [read federal] courts, the power to deny non original-jurisdiction cases from being heard in the Supreme Court... defunding them.

[OneWingedShark]

In other words, corrupt Congress wrongly ignored getting the required consent of the Article V state majority before it established Obamacare.

They ignored that requirement for the War on Drugs.