Am I the only one who recalls all of the thousands of waivers that were handed out in the beginning of the implementation of Obamacare? If you had the right connections for your business, no problem. We thought we had a win with Hobby Lobby at the Supreme Court. And we did .But guess what Obama just did with that damnable pen of his? Hobby Lobby Employees Will Get Birth Control Under A New Rule That Sidesteps Supreme Court’s Decision. Obama overrides the Supreme Court this past Friday. More on that after I get done with the Sisters and their sad plight. Apparently, the “Little Sisters of the Poor” did not escape the wrath either, and just lost another round with the Tenth Circuit, deeming them not religious enough. Take a look at this moving clip and you tell me if they are not religious enough.
The Little Sisters of the Poor have reiterated their commitment to following their conscience as they care for the poor and dying, following a federal appeals court ruling that they must obey the federal contraception mandate.
“As Little Sisters of the Poor, we simply cannot choose between our care for the elderly poor and our faith,” said Mother Provincial Sr. Loraine Marie Maguire.
“And we should not have to make that choice, because it violates our nation’s commitment to ensuring that people from diverse faiths can freely follow God’s calling in their lives. For over 175 years, we have served the neediest in society with love and dignity. All we ask is to be able to continue our religious vocation free from government intrusion.
Employers who fail to comply with the mandate face crippling penalties. In the case of the Little Sisters, the fines could amount to around $2.5 million a year, or about 40 percent of the $6 million the Sisters beg for annually to run their ministry.
Updated news story at Catholic News agency
The Little Sisters of the Poor are an international Roman Catholic Congregation of women Religious founded in 1839 by St. Jeanne Jugan. They operate homes in 31 countries, where they provide loving care for over 13,000 needy elderly persons.
Although the Little Sisters’ homes perform a religious ministry of caring for the elderly poor, they do not fall within the government’s narrow exemption for “religious employers.” Accordingly, beginning on January 1, the Little Sisters will face IRS fines unless they violate their religion by hiring an insurer to provide their employees with contraceptives, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs.
For more information, visit http://www.becketfund.org/littlesisters
Obama overrides Supreme Court decision.
On Friday, the Obama administration made its final ruling on how employers will handle birth control in their health insurance plans — they’ll provide it regardless of their moral beliefs. Birth control methods will be covered at no cost to employees, even if their employer objects.
With respect to women, preventive care and screenings provided for in comprehensive guidelines supported by HRSA (not otherwise addressed by the recommendations of the Task Force), including all Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved contraceptives, sterilization procedures, and patient education and counseling for women with reproductive capacity, as prescribed by a health care provider (collectively, contraceptive services).1
For-profit companies have the option of writing a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) if they wish to object to coverage. Under the new rules, the HHS will notify a third-party insurance company, which will then provide the birth control coverage to the company’s female employee without infringing any additional cost onto the company itself.
The program was running smoothly until the Evangelical Christian owners of craft chain store Hobby Lobby famously objected to the mandate, claiming it violated their right to religious beliefs. On June 30, 2014 the Supreme Court sided with Hobby Lobby in an unprecedented decision, but the Obama administration put a conclusive response to the court’s ruling by overriding it.
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July 16, 2015 at 12:05 pm
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July 17, 2015 at 8:18 am
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July 15, 2015 at 10:59 pm
Ya, I suppose we just won’t have religious institutions doing anything anymore….they can’t afford it. We know this is moving toward paying taxes, too. We have to get ready.
What a better country we were when MOST charity was done by religious institutions….
Everybody has to be beholden to big gov’t now; that’s just the way it’s going, sadly.
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July 17, 2015 at 8:18 am
A sad day
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July 15, 2015 at 6:59 pm
Well that victory was short-lived! This basically shows us that the SCOTUS is all but null and void.
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July 15, 2015 at 7:54 pm
The coup is now complete
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July 15, 2015 at 7:55 pm
Sadly it is so!
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July 15, 2015 at 6:53 pm
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July 15, 2015 at 7:54 pm
Thanks so much..
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July 15, 2015 at 6:49 pm
BHO said that we are no longer a Judeo-Christian nation, and he is trying to make that a fact. I hope that Roman Catholics, all other Christians, and those of good will will support the work of those sisters. We will be doing work more effectively than statists of any political belief can do.
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July 15, 2015 at 7:56 pm
It has been done that way for centuries..
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July 15, 2015 at 6:27 pm
Is our Constitution even worth the paper it is written on? Freedom of religion where art thou?
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July 15, 2015 at 7:57 pm
The simple answer is no. Sorry.
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July 15, 2015 at 6:24 pm
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July 15, 2015 at 7:53 pm
Thank you Teresa.
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July 15, 2015 at 5:03 pm
Well, if we had universal coverage like every other developed nation, this wouldn’t be an issue, would it? But as long as you stupid cons stand in the way of progress, we will continue to have this stupid private employer-based system and these sorts of problems will continue to arise. Good for Obama and the rest of us Americans for another victory in the courts!
JMJ
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July 15, 2015 at 7:53 pm
The va is swell it will be great when we are all in it.
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July 16, 2015 at 1:56 am
The VA overall is very good. How nice of you to bash the entire system.
JMJ
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July 15, 2015 at 2:01 pm
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July 15, 2015 at 7:52 pm
Thanks again.
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July 15, 2015 at 12:08 pm
By imposing abusive financial penalties, we are headed full-speed to that state where only the government matters. This is what the American people voted for, this is what the American people got … and this has been the end-game in American education for the past sixty years: citizen compliance. Only a few of us sees what is actually happening; only a few of us actually cares. I call it self-strangulation.
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July 15, 2015 at 7:49 pm
Is it a blessing? I often wonder for those of us who see the end coming..
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July 15, 2015 at 10:29 am
where are the Republicans?
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July 15, 2015 at 10:44 am
What are the republicans?
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July 15, 2015 at 7:49 pm
Missing in action.
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July 15, 2015 at 10:26 am
THE LAW is whatever Khalif Obama and the Mullahs in Black Robes say it is.
This is not the end. It is only the beginning.
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July 15, 2015 at 7:51 pm
Thankfully I am s certain age. No doubt I will die at the end of an obamcare death panel who finds me of no use.
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July 15, 2015 at 10:12 am
Hopefully Dante has a level of hell reserved just for this anti-American scum and his fellow travelers.
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July 15, 2015 at 7:50 pm
May they reside there for an eternity.
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July 15, 2015 at 8:30 am
Let’s then also “side step” the Supreme Court’s decision on Gay Marriage
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July 15, 2015 at 9:10 am
They pick and chose. Our Republic is finished.
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July 15, 2015 at 8:09 am
We are now living in AmeriK.
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July 15, 2015 at 9:09 am
Where is the outrage? And we wondered how the Nazi;s got to where they got to.
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July 15, 2015 at 10:52 am
Where is the outrage?
People are afraid to speak out. They fear for their jobs now.
Christians, too. What will Jesus say about this silence? “Lukewarm!”
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July 15, 2015 at 7:58 am
What a terrible thing to read first thing in the morning. Nevertheless, we need to know these things. With a stroke of the pen, the American president made clear that law and rights are granted and revoked at whim. We are now living in an unfree state.
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July 15, 2015 at 9:08 am
Thanks so much for the repost and stopping by. We really are now living in an authoritarian state.
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July 15, 2015 at 7:49 am
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July 15, 2015 at 6:26 am
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