Opening July 18, 2014. This is on the must watch list.
Posted on 07/12/2014 5:26:18 AM PDT by cotton1706
Chuck Schumer has an odd view of the First Amendment.
If on the basis of religious conviction you refuse to pay for something Schumer wants you to pay for, he believes you forfeit your right to have a business.
Never mind that the Supreme Court just ruled the opposite in the Hobby Lobby case. At a press conference announcing a new bill designed to change the law that was the basis of that ruling, he put it this way:
“We wouldn’t tell the owners of Hobby Lobby to convert to a different religion or disobey their religion,” said Schumer. “But we don’t say that they have to open a company and go sell toys or hobby kits.” Businesses have no religious freedom, he said, because their “purpose is to profit from the open market.”
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand was blunter still: “Congress must make it clear that businesses aren’t people and do not have the same rights people have.”
By that twisted logic, a family-owned kosher or halal butcher shop would have no religious grounds to challenge a law — similar to ones already enacted in Europe — that bars kosher slaughter.
Nor could those same butchers forbid an employee or customer from bringing non-kosher or non-halal food into their stores, because that would constitute imposing their beliefs.
The Constitution forbids a religious test for public office. Surely the men who drafted these protections would be aghast to see a United States senator suggesting the federal government impose one for running a business.
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What if the name of the business was Jihaddi Lobbi?
the ultimate contradiction.
Opening July 18, 2014. This is on the must watch list.
You left out the latest one: Homosexuality
To be followed soon by paedophilia, incest, bestiality . . .
OK then if she is correct on that front, then how should those who own a business file their taxes? Oh that's right, small business owners file taxes as individuals!
Wait, aren't individuals PERSONS??
Can't have it both ways.
If I watch the little white square, will it open up into a picture on July 18?
When I go into the “open market” to sell my labor to the highest bidder, I’m doing essentially what every business is doing, according to Schumer. Do I thus forfeit my rights?
The courts have held, again and again, that a corporation functions under the law as a person. Schumer is wrong as a matter of established law.
The goal of this bit of kubuki theater is not to pass legislation. It is to insure the anticapitalist base of the DP that they are still loved.
Don’t be surprised if Schumer - and American courts - answer ‘yes’ in the very near future. Who’s going to stop them?
So by this logic a Kosher restaurant can be forced to serve pork chops because,after all,it was set up to make a profit in the open market.
Chucky conveniently leaves out the fact that Hobby Lobby has been in business for years and only since Obamacare did government try to specify every detail of what sort of health insurance employers had to provide.
Ten bucks says that he's an atheist Jew,a Jew who sees the word as being an ethnic,rather than a religious,identifier.Check it out....many,many,*many* of the people in this country who identify themselves as a "Jew" or "Jewish" will freely tell you that they're atheist if you ask them.
Schmuckie is a fascist. Get a rope.
How does UpChuckie feel about “No shirt, no shoes, no sale.”
No. No. No. You don’t understand. The Democrats don’t mind if you have religion. You just can’t practice it in any meaningful way outside of your church or your private residence. If you open a business, for example, that’s the public sphere, and the constitution clearly states Congress can make laws regulating and/or prohibiting religion in public. It’s right there in the US Constitution. Look it up!
ESA (EXTREME Sarcasm Alert!)
What part of “Congress shall make no law” do you not understand, Chuckie?
Ironic thin is Schumer is Jewish (I think)
The concept of "open market", by its nature, involves a "willing buyer" and a "willing seller". There are multitudes of reasons a normally "willing seller" chooses to become "unwilling". A bunch of commies have no standing to define the term "open market". That is one of the fundamental reasons our economy is, and has been, in the crapper for so long . . . their economic theory is destructive garbage.
“Isn’t Congress infringing on the owners’ property rights?”
Don’t try appealing to reason. With Democrats, up is down and down is up. I seriously mean it. They seem to speak the same language as real Americans, but the words have entirely different meanings. For example, freedom means government gets to control everything you do if you dare open a business.
Schmuckie is well-known as a member of New York City’s largest Reform Synagogue, and regularly attends.
I have never heard of him claiming to be atheist or even agnostic.
He certainly seems to represent the views of his voters. There’s no deception there.
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