Posted on 07/21/2014 8:03:05 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
They don’t hold the house.. why are they even bothering???
(same excuse the right uses for not passing shyt.. they don’t hold the senate/white hut)
RE: Democrats Try to Overturn Hobby Lobby Decision
It WILL happen if American Voters let them ( including those who could have voted by choose to stay home ).
Murray needs to be reminded that often-deadly venereal disease never enjoyed such a heyday than AFTER birth control came on the popular scene.
For leftists:
USSC decisions in our favor - law of the land, precendent, FOREVER.
USSC decisions against our agenda - a travesty that must be overturned.
The purpose of this Act, reads Senate Bill 2578, is to ensure that employers that provide health benefits to their employees cannot deny any specific health benefits, including contraception coverage, to any of their employees or the covered dependents of such employees entitled by Federal law to receive such coverage.
Yeah. Sounds unconstitutional.
Why would this unconstitutional law stand when it violates the First Amendment just like the abortion pill requirement does?
Written in the bill is an extensive list of reasons that why Democrats believe that employers should be forced to violate their religious conscience: Ninety-nine percent of sexually active women use birth control at least once in their lifetimes, birth control is one of the Ten Great Public Health Achievements of the 20th century, birth control has been directly connected to womens economic success and ability to participate in society equally, Women with access to birth control are more likely to have higher educational achievement and career achievement, and to be paid higher wages, etc.
Wait a second. Do the politicians supporting this bill think that the Supreme Court ruled that birth control is unconstitutional? Are women being denied the freedom to use birth control if they desire? The text communicates an unreasonable feeling of panic that birth control faces extinction.
PFL
Unfortunately, hatred--for that is what usually drives the fanatic--can be a very powerful incentive. While normal people pursue family & personal interests, the normal pursuits of normal people; the hate driven reformer keeps trying to suppress what he or she despises; and the efforts of a class of people, long despised by the reforming zealots in America, to preserve the right of conscience, but infuriate those zealots to ever greater effort.
In case you have not noticed: The people, now assailing the First Amendment in Congress, have generally long histories of trying to tear down the achievements of the Founding Fathers.
William Flax
Back before birth control pills, the area around here was free from VD. You could not even find a condom machine in a gas station.
After the pill became legal, almost everyone who picks up a skank from one of the Oklahoma bars gets the clap or crabs,or worse, and all the stores now have condoms.
I sure hope “our side” takes this approach with Roe v Wade when we retake the Senate.
I wouldn't say "free from," but it was certainly a miniscule fraction of what we have today. And it was properly scandalized as the result of immoral behavior, and acted as a teaching object against transgressors.
There never used to be such a ridiculous notion as "safe" sex. That sex ever had to be rendered "safe" to begin with is a neon-sign indication that what had to be made safe was immoral to begin with.
Cheapening of the sexual act has led it to be nothing but an outlet for lust and not of procreation...
Because the mandate was not ruled unconstitutional, unfortunately. The Hobby Lobby case was not decided under the First Amendment, it was decided under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. With the current court, Hobby Lobby probably would have lost a First Amendment challenge to the mandate (after all, Scalia wrote the majority decision in Employment Division v. Smith, which was the decision Congress was reacting to when it passed RFRA in the first place)
This does suggest what someone else was saying - that they know they are losing the senate so they are pandering to their low information base. i.e. they know this is DOA but want to make the symbolic move. And look at the sentence I quoted. It's offensive on the face of it.
Hobby Lobby decision was so limited because the company is a “closely held” company — translation — family owned.
Doesn’t apply to any other business or corporation.
Employers should NOT have to pay a dime for any of the birth control parts of health benefits.
IF an employer is required to provide birth control pills, why is the same employer required to provide pregnancy benefits?????
very clever graphic
ah, but it’s too all-encompassing for the Left
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