Posted on 07/14/2015 11:03:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Bishop Hare would be tossed out of the Episcopal Church today. Pity his kind have died out.
Thats how I read it.
The argument here is that there IS an opt out for Little Sisters. The government says the opt out is reasonable and accompdates Little Sisters religious beliefs.
But because of some nuance with Little Sister’s insurance coverage, the opt out process is more complicated than just filling out the form that tells HHS to go pound sand. So Little Sisters is claiming the process, which is somewhat unique to them, imposes a substantial burden.
5.56mm
If this horrible ruling stands, either the Sisters will have to provide contraception coverage for all those lay people, or go out of business.
Stupid beyond belief.
Little Sisters seems to have an exceedinging rare, if not completely unique insurance setup.
There’s NO reason for HHS to pursue this. Except out of spite. It’s a classic example of use of lawfare to ensure not that HHS wins, but that those who oppose them, no matter how small and insignificant, lose. It’s abuse of governmental coercive power at it’s finest.
The petitioners before the court can view this as a First Amendment religious freedom issue, but they can, in addition, view this as a basic human liberty issue:
If I don’t want green beans, I shouldn’t be compelled to buy green beans.
If a customer doesn’t want green beans, I shouldn’t be compelled to sell the customer green beans.
The third party of government has no business meddling in the contract negotiations of parties one and two.
I should have put the sarcastic tag. I appreciate that there are more people involved.
My wife works for a Catholic Hospital. She is their media/government relations person. She is always amazed when someone from the media calls for a comment on some Catholic stance on contraception and/or abortion.
At one point she acted stunned for the newbie reporter—asking if the Pope had changed the rules that had been in place for 2,000 years?
These rules are just assinine.
Our country was founded on the idea that:
Natural Law/God given rights protect us from tyrannical Goverment
The left has now flip that that to:
Goverment given rights protect us from tyrannical Natural Law/God...
I’ll add one more thing here to my previous posts.
The Obama Administration is aggressively using “deferred action” to legalize millions of illegall immigrants. And is fighting tooth and nail in the courts (5th Circuit) to adopt the most expansive defintion of deferred action possible.
But it won’t use deferred action here, to spare a small group of geriatric nuns from economic destruction for standing by their beliefs.
whole lot of judges ought be drug behind pick up trucks.
I find THAT amazing, too!
You know, I don’t know.
Someone here posted all of the ‘contraceptives’ that Hobby Lobby DOES provide for their employees.
They just won’t provide ‘The Morning After Pill’ and ‘Plan B’ which was what started the ball rolling.
Ghouls!
IN OTHER WORDS, we know the Hobby Lobby decision was very unpopular with the only people who still matter in this country, so we’re going to whittle it down for a while, and then the Supreme Court will make it go away, just like they did that embarrassing Bowers v. Hardwick decision years ago.
-PJ
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