Posted on 03/24/2016 2:09:47 PM PDT by Nachum
In oral arguments in the Supreme Court yesterday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked an attorney representing East Texas Baptist University, Southern Nazarene University, Geneva College and the Little Sisters of the Poor whether the United States government would ever be able to function if it could not demand that people do things that those people believe will cause their souls to “be damned in some way.”
“Because every believer that’s ever come before us, including the people in the military, are saying that my soul will be damned in some way,” said Sotomayor. “I’m not naysaying that that is a very substantial perceived personal burden by them. But if that’s always going to be substantial, how will we ever have a government that functions? How will we ever have anything that the government can demand people do in objecting…that won’t be a problem?”
The case—Zubik v. Burwell—is looking at the question of whether the Obama administration can force Catholic and Protestant non-profit institutions to cooperate in a government regulatory scheme that would use the health-care plans of those institutions to deliver coverage for sterilizations, contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs and devices.
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The wise latina can’t grasp the concept that if one bakeshop opts not to bake a cake for the sodomists, the happy couple can go to a shop that will.
As a good liberal, she is committed to forcing people to violate their consciences. Libs apparently have no conscience.
Totalitarian mindset at work. And not Christian, but the same old Bolshevik philosophy.
Spoken like a True Believer - only someone who believed that government, and not religion, family, education or some other more noble focus, should be the begin and end all of life.......
Who put Satan on the supreme court?
An unrepentant outburst of disrespect, qualifying her as a both a liberal know-it-all, and someone who is always right irregardless the facts, which she dismisses based on her belief system.
How can a police state police the state if the police are constrained in any way?
How can our constitutionally guaranteed rights be preserved if unconstitutional acts by government are upheld by liberal activist judges? Your duty is to preserve the constitution and the rights of the people from an overreaching government.
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