Posted on 11/05/2019 9:44:25 AM PST by Morgana
LA MESA, Calif. — An appeals court heard arguments Monday in a federal lawsuit filed by a La Mesa church against a state health agency, alleging violations of equal protection rights for “forcing” churches to have elective abortions covered in their health insurance plans.
Skyline Wesleyan Church filed suit in response to a 2014 letter distributed by the California Department of Managed Health Care to various insurance agencies, in which the department said health plans must include abortion coverage, or be in violation of state law.
The letter stated that “the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975 requires the provision of basic health services and the California Constitution prohibits health plans from discriminating against women who choose to terminate a pregnancy.”
The church alleged in its suit that Skyline Wesleyan’s insurance plans — covering more than 100 employees — were rewritten without notifying the church.
A lower court ruled in favor of the state agency, and the church appealed, triggering Monday morning’s session before a panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, which did not issue an immediate decision.
A statement from the church says that it only employs people who share its beliefs regarding abortions and that it believes “all life is valuable and deserving of protection and that abortion is incompatible with that belief.”
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The left is forcing Christians to choose between their faith and their job. The end goal is to eliminate Christianity.
From the 14th Amendment:
"Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
By letting activist judges do their dirty legislative work for them, career lawmakers are able to keep their voting records clean.
And by keeping their voting records clean, lawmakers are able to fool low-information patriots, patriots who have evidently never been taught about their 14A protections, into reelecting incumbent lawmakers.
Also regarding 14A:
Patriots who value their constitutionally enumerated protections of freedom of religious expression and free speech, consider that Acts 22:25-29 shows that Apostle Paul got out of a flogging by claiming his Roman citizenship.
UC Berkeley relatively recently had to pay compensation under 14A concerning abridging 1st Amendment free speech protections.
UC Berkeley settles landmark free speech lawsuit, will pay $70,000 to conservative group
Problem is that taxpayers, not Berkeley offending state actors, will probably pay compensation.
The remedy for constitutionally failed federal and state governments regarding the murder of unborn children…
Patriots need to elect a new patriot Congress in the 2020 elections that will not only promise to fully support PDJT’s already excellent work for MAGA, now KAG, but will also do the following.
New patriot lawmakers also need to promise to do their constitutionally enumerated duty to make penal laws to discourage state actors from abridging constitutionally enumerated protections.
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA! No KAG! (Keep America Great!)
This is a clear and obvious violation of the First Amendment, which is why progressive judges will probably uphold it.
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