Yay! For The ACA!
Posted by Michelle Moquin on March 26th, 2014
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Rallying For Women’s Rights
Today, as the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case brought by Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood against the Affordable Care Act, hundreds of rights’ activists from women’s, LGBT, faith, youth and other groups rallied outside in the unseasonably cold weather and snow to show their support for the ACA’s contraception health coverage rule.
A bad Hobby Lobby decision would empower corporate leadership to make determinations about their employees’ health care decisions, allowing business owners’ religious views about family planning to burden decisions that employees are entitled to make for themselves. Starting very early this morning defenders, of the Affordable Care Act stood at the steps of the Supreme Court to declare that women’s health care is not their boss’s business.
Take a look below at the scene today at the Supreme Court.
NARAL Pro Choice America and Planned Parenthood Presidents Ilyse Hogue and Cecile Richards
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Thanks to all the ladies who got out there in the cold to rally for our rights!
Peace & Love to all of you!
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March 26th, 2014 at 6:14 pm
True, The Establishment Clause prevents the Government from interfering with the freedom of religious groups to select their own ministers, but it also prevents the Government from deciding who is and is not religious enough to have their religious liberty secured and protected.
March 26th, 2014 at 6:15 pm
I ask all concerned people to pray earnestly so this HHS Mandate is dropped. March 25th is the Feast of the Annunciation. I hope that this may be a sign that the justices will do so, however I still think we need a lot of prayer. Pray this evening and especially on the 25th. So much is at stake.
March 26th, 2014 at 6:15 pm
Thy will be done.
March 26th, 2014 at 6:18 pm
I’m convinced this is going to be a 7-2 decision in upholding the employer mandatebecause if for-profit employers can claim a religious exemption to providing contraceptives, then other employers can opt out of vaccinations, blood transfusions, organ transplants, what have you.
There is by definition no stopping point, b/c everyone can claim a religious exemption to something they don’t like. The way I see it only Scalia and his house nigger Thomas will vote for it.
March 26th, 2014 at 6:21 pm
I’d like you christian religious zealots to consider this hypothetical:
A Catholic mother is driving through the desert at night. In her car are her two toddlers and a 6 month old.
The car breaks down and she is forced to walk 2 miles to a gas station—carrying the 6 month old while pleading with the exhausted toddlers to keep walking.
The devout Muslim who owns the station refuses to assist her because:
1. He believes she shouldn’t be driving.
2. He believes she shouldn’t be out on her own without being accompanied by a male member of her family.
3. Her cross identifies her as an infidel.
4. Her uncovered head offends his profoundly held religious beliefs.
So—now what do you think about “religious liberty”?
March 26th, 2014 at 6:24 pm
The Right is just using religion to get those religious idiots to support another attack upon Obamacare.
March 26th, 2014 at 6:25 pm
Howie, your posts are awesome! I can understand those who wish to keep the rest of us in the dark being upset by them.
March 26th, 2014 at 6:26 pm
Fahran#5, Here’s where your strawman argument comes to life and beats you down. Muslims have an age-old injunction to show hospitality to the stranded traveler—and while I’m not certain it applies to “idolaters”, it absolutely applies to “people of the book”, i.e. Jews and Christians. He would be absolutely bound to help her, even if he had to smash his dishes afterwards because they had touched unclean lips.
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Tell me, do you have any opinions about religious liberty not based on wholly counterfactual bigoted caricature?
March 26th, 2014 at 6:31 pm
Tom#8 sounds like you christians are counting on the Muslims to be more charitable that you hypocritical christians.
March 26th, 2014 at 6:33 pm
Tom#5:
So you’re saying that the hypothetical would never happen because ALL Muslims everywhere follow ALL “age-old” injunctions the way, for example, all Christians and Jews follow the “age-old” injunction to “remember the Sabbath and keep it holy” (which was a re-write of the Hebrew “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.
For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.”)
Because, as we all know, no Jew or Christian works on the Sabbath—right?
March 26th, 2014 at 6:35 pm
Fahran, what do you expect from an opportunistic religion like christianity. The don’t even respect the Sabbath which is Saturday, they call the Sabbath, Sunday because it is more convenient for them economically.
March 27th, 2014 at 7:37 am
Last time I looked at the Constitution, the non-establishment / freedom of religion clause was NOT limited to religious institutions, but applied to all citizens. Of course, I’m not a constitutional scholar, so when I see;
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,…”
I take it to mean that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Silly me.