Posted on 06/30/2014 5:10:22 PM PDT by raptor22
First Amendment: The pen may be mightier than the sword, but President Obama's pen is not mightier than the Constitution or Americans' right to run businesses without sacrificing their religious beliefs and consciences.
While the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision in favor of Hobby Lobby and a furniture maker in Pennsylvania was limited to "closely held" for-profit businesses, and is limited to the contraception mandate, its effect could be one more Obama-Care thread unraveling under the weight of its own injustice and inefficiencies.
The court has rightly decided that businesses such as Hobby Lobby, which is solely owned by founder David Green and his family, who also own the Mardel Christian bookstore chain, cannot be forced to defy their religious beliefs by having to provide insurance coverage for certain types of contraceptives and abortifacients.
ObamaCare's contraception mandate was never passed by the elected representatives of "we the people." Rather, it was the bureaucratic creation of the former secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius.
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I’m not sure that would even matter. Any case related to these provisions of ObamaCare would be argued on First Amendment grounds anyway — even if the RFRA never existed.
So if you're a Christian and/or pro-life...now is the time to stand up for your beliefs!!
This was a tepid decision, and barely a win. More like a gnawed bone thrown to us.
I found it particularly galling that the oligarchs were willing to pick religious winners and losers. So a company whose owners have a sincere belief that it shouldnt provide abortifacients are protected, but a company that has a sincere belief that transfusions shouldnt be provided (e.g. Jehovahs witnesses) would not be.
To steal a phrase from Orwell; all religions are equal, but some are more equal than others.
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The Jehovah's Witnesses were not a plaintiff in this case. I believe the U.S. Supreme Court opened that very door with this decision, regardless of what might have been written in Alito's majority opinion.
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