From the Washington Examiner.
Excerpt:
Senator Boxer warned yesterday that if the HHS contraception mandate was repealed it would set a dangerous precedence of religious rights trumping the right to be insured.
On MSNBC’s Politics Nation with Al Sharpton last night, Boxer affirmed that under the proposed amendment proposed by Sen. Roy Blunt, an employer would not be forced by the government to pay for medical practices against his religion.
“I mean, are they serious? Sharpton exclaimed, “How do you make a law where an employer can decide his own religious beliefs violate your right to be insured?”
“Oh absolutely,” Boxer said, “Let’s use an example, let’s say somebody believes that medicine doesn’t cure anybody of a disease but prayer does and then they decide no medicine.
“No medicine!” she exclaimed, “Under the Blunt amendment, they could do just that.”
Senator Harry Reid announced yesterday that he would allow a vote on the Blunt Amendment. The vote allows Senate Democrats such as Robert Casey of Pennsylvania, and Joe Manchin of West Virginia to register a protest vote against the HHS contraception mandate.
Fascism is the ideology that states that the worldview of the government, especially on questions of religion, morality and meaning, should be pushed down onto individuals by force. The Democrat elites, including Obama, are pro-abortion. And now, they want to force you to be pro-abortion, too – by forcing you to subsidize the abortions of others, even if you have a conscientious objection based on your religion. Your money isn’t your money – it’s Obama’s money. You just earn it. But Obama spends it. And if he spends in subsidizing abortion, and you don’t like it, then tough luck for you. That’s how secular leftist Democrats think.
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Yes, I seem to remember that the right to be insured was covered in the Bill of Rights somewhere, wasn’t it?
[“No medicine!” she exclaimed, “Under the Blunt amendment, they could do just that.”]
Lets think about this, Boxer. Under their plan, the government couldn’t force employers to allow medical coverage. That’s true.
Under your vision, the government could have employers literally do ANYTHING in the name of medicine or the common good or whatever excuse you want. There would be no limit.
I think the first view lines up with our Constitution. The second lines up with every second-rate horrible monarchy or despotism in history. Glad to know you are a traitor to your nation.
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Thanks for posting this. Seriously scary stuff.
God forbid your religion prevents innocent, unborn people from being murdered. This is about human rights, dammit.
Scary stuff … and not likely to get better anytime soon. Christian values are not on the rise.