Little Sisters: Don't Let ObamaCare Stop Our Ministry

Investor's Business Daily ^ | December 10, 2014 | IBD EDITORIALS

[raptor22]

Law: If there really is a "war on women," it's being waged against a group of nuns who seek to honor their call to serve the dying poor without being compelled to provide contraception coverage to those who help them.

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver heard oral arguments Monday in the lawsuit by the Little Sisters of the Poor challenging the ObamaCare abortion-inducing drug mandate that threatens religious liberty.

The case of the feisty nuns challenges a bizarre "accommodation" offered by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHS). Under its proposal, the Little Sisters can fill out a government form that notes their objection but that also gives the government authority to have someone else provide that coverage.

"What the government has done, and it's a strange thing to do, is say, 'The only way we'll accept our objection is if on the same piece of paper saying 'I object' you modify the plan to give someone else the authority to give out contraceptives on the plan," Mark Rienzi, senior counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, said at a press conference following the oral arguments.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Since the government has long been in the handout business, such a thing shouldn’t even be necessary if in its wonderful wisdom it chooses to handout some bennie that the private sphere won’t.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Meaning, such a thing as this weird agreement. Want to give out free passes to abortion... you’re vile to do it, Obama, but you also don’t need the sisters’ sayso.

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

Sorry, sisters, but when the Catholic hierarchy got behind Obamacare and fell for the Stupak amendment, your fate was sealed.

[Amendment10]

With all due respect to mom & pop, as a consequence of the parents of the Little Sisters not making sure that their daughters were taught about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, the Little Sisters are not able to argue the following points from a Supreme Court case opinion which would stop constitutionally indefensible Obamacare dead in its tracks imo.

• ”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. [emphases added]” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

• “Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

[Campion]

Fact: the hierarchy didn’t support PPACA, with or without Stupak.