Posted on 07/25/2015 2:47:13 PM PDT by NYer
Good news!
Time for folks to start using the precedent, where possible.
Alternatives to Obamacare
http://tamarawilhite.hubpages.com/hub/Alternatives-to-Obamacare
This list includes a Catholic health sharing ministry, acting under the insurance exemption the Amish and Mennonites use, while having rather standard coverage and copays for doctors’ visits and medical emergencies.
The pendulum is moving!
Hallelujah!
The Eighth Circuit's ruling held that the Wielands had "standing to sue" given their claims...And I see on another thread that preachers can't preach against homosexuality in KY!
Some good news, for a change.
Effective on a personal level, right?
This means -- not everyone has to be a religious "organization" to escape being forced to directly fund things which are against their conscience? Or so I hope...
I hope this helps the Little Sisters of the Poor, too, although I have not followed that closely enough to know if there has been the expected appeal to the (so-called) Supreme Court.
Yes, they have appealed to SCOTUS:
Recently I read the 133 page pdf of the last judgment which went against them.
It's a painful read, with some relief (not enough, one dissenter, out of three judges) beginning at page 109 of the pdf supplied by Beckett Fund. http://www.becketfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/LSP-Op.pdf
The goobermint's arguments would still leave the Little Sisters having to sign what could potentially become death warrant for the yet-to-be born.
IMO, it doesn't matter that the third-party insurance provider presently has an exemption from the law, and is not required to provide the so-called 'reproductive health' coverage which the Little Sisters would be forced into requesting -- but that request called "opting out" by the government.
Did I get that right? The government's argument is terribly convoluted, so trying to cut through the blarney there, I may have not sliced & diced it correctly.
If you or I signed paperwork authorizing the taking of a human life --- it would not matter one whit that the party to whom we gave that writing had no intention of following through on the request, we could still be charged with the crime of contracting for murder.
And so in this, the "law" (laws of this nation most generally and of long standing, and those in comparison to the more recent ACA) are inconsistent.
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