Posted on 07/01/2014 5:36:28 PM PDT by unlearner
For all of the non-stop wall-to-wall coverage of yesterday’s Supreme Court decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby—in which the Court ruled that the government doesn’t have the authority to force “closely-held corporations” to violate their religious beliefs—a simple fact has been lost. The ruling did not overturn a single word of the “Affordable Care Act,” otherwise known as Obamacare. Nor did the Supreme Court prevent the government from requiring that taxpayers finance abortion-related services.
Pro-life activists—and Obamacare opponents—are cheering today. But when they sit down and reflect, they’ll realize that they haven’t won a thing.
The Supremes endorsed the White House’s ‘accommodation’ of Catholic institutions
On page five of the Supreme Court opinion, Samuel Alito spells out how the Obama administration can get around the Court’s ruling that the administration can’t force Hobby Lobby to offer health insurance plans with contraception and abortifacient coverage. “The government could, e.g., assume the cost of providing the four contraceptives to women unable to obtain coverage due to their employers’ religious objections,” writes Alito.
Ah, but who finances the government? Taxpayers. In other words, while the government can’t compel Hobby Lobby to finance abortifacients, it can compel taxpayers to do so. Isn’t that a distinction without a difference?
Alito continues...
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
I think it was self preservation for the Supreme s, if nothing else.
Imagine you are sitting on the Court and the Executive Branch is making Congress irrelevant...what do you do? You make yourself relevant, and begin the climb out of the s($^ hole this guy has dug as a grave for the other two branches of government....
The left has handed you a precedent and you use it. There in lies Congress’s chance to crawl out from under by using the laws broken by the guy who thinks he is King. So we shall see if Congress does sue him, and if a GOP Senate in Nov...begins the Impeachment in the House with a Senate who convicts. God bless the Supreme s who took the right stand.
I assume that CEOs pay taxes and therefore are “taxpayers” with the same God given rights as those who don’t pay taxes and leech off of hardworking people.
That’s like expecting a repeal of abortion in one fell swoop.
Obviously, writing for Forbes, he is more aware than most. If you read more than just the headline... or even if you only read the headline... the point is not that the SC made a bad decision in favor of Hobby Lobby. He is pointing out that individuals should also have the same protection. Yes, corporations pay taxes. So do a lot of individuals. And even if we pay no taxes at all (iow “free” Obamacare) we should still not be coerced by the government to practice the religion of liberalism. That is what Obamacare does.
I am not stating what I expect, just what is right. Likewise, abortion SHOULD be repealed in one fell swoop. And the perpetrators of this genocide should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. Will that happen in this nation? Probably not until God judges the world. But that is starting to look very soon.
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