Thursday, August 02, 2012

Obama's Attack on Religious Freedom Takes Effect

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Yesterday, Obama's health care law's mandate against religion in the form of forcing insurance to pay for all contraceptives, including the day after abortion pill, took effect. The democrats claim they are protecting women's health, while religious groups consider it forcing them to participate in something they are morally against, which means their religious liberties are being taken away.

The first Americans came to the New World seeking religious freedom, and that was the inspiration for our religious freedom's being notated in the First Amendment. The democrats reject it, and are willing to force their will upon people, not only citizens, but now even religion.

Employers, even those affiliated with church organizations, despite any moral disagreement, are being forced to pay for abortion inducing drugs, contraception, and sterilization for their employees. Employers are now required, by federal mandate, whether they like it or not, to offer these services for free. In other words, employers must carry the cost of including these services in their health insurance plans. And they have to do this regardless of their deeply held beliefs against these services.

Never mind that the federal government has no constitutional authority to force such things upon businesses, religiously affiliated or not. Never mind that Obama is trampling on faith, and job producers. The Obama administration believes that their mandate, their own beliefs, are above those of the citizens and religious organizations, so they must be forced to comply with the government's warped morals, or be punished.

Sound like the freedom of America?

Sounds more like a soviet regime.

The liberals have offered a small exemption for churches, but not religious employers like universities, hospitals, and the like.

I am positive that exemption won't last long if this mandate stays in place.

More than twenty lawsuits have been filed against Obama's Human and Health Services Department by nearly sixty organizations.

And the thing is, when it comes to the Affordable Care Act's bag of tricks, this is only the beginning. Mandates are littered throughout this law - draconian mandates like this one are written into the law with the specific design of control over the populace by the federal government - while taxing the people so that the federal government can pay for the tyranny of the Obamacare law.

In other words, they are charging you for their enslavement of you, and you have no choice but to pay it.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary



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