ObamaCare’s Mandate To Shut Down Little Sisters Of The Poor

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A group of nuns dedicated to caring for the elderly poor is suing to prevent an uncaring administration from shutting down their compassionate order over their refusal to obey the contraception mandate.

There is no clearer or sadder example of the Obama administration’s war on the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty than the demand by the Department of Health and Human Services to violate their religious consciences or pay heavy fines.

HHS has ruled that if the Sisters don’t offer insurance policies to their employees that include free coverage for sterilization procedures, artificial contraceptives and abortifacients, these vowed-to-poverty women will have to pay about $1 million in IRS fines, effectively making their work nearly impossible.

The Little Sisters of the Poor are a global Roman Catholic congregation of women, founded in 1839 by St. Jeanne Jugan. They operate homes in 31 countries, where they provide loving care for more than 13,000 needy elderly persons. Thirty homes are in the U.S.

Last Tuesday, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Little Sisters of the Poor. It questions the HHS ruling that, while houses of worship are exempt from the contraception mandate, the Little Sisters of the Poor are merely a social service organization that serves and hires non-Catholics, so it does not qualify for an exemption.

“The Little Sisters are driven by their religious faith to do what they do in terms of taking care of the elderly poor,” said Mark Rienzi, senior counsel for the Becket Fund. “The government should not be telling them they have to violate that faith to keep serving the poor.”

That objection has been raised by the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops, which argues that that religious institutions aren’t merely defined by church buildings open on Sunday but by the work they do and that the government needs to ensure the First Amendment isn’t gutted.

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If it were a Muslim organization, the brat would be front and center to exempt it.

Evil declares itself more and more openly. “Fruit the tree bares..” is clearly on display from the Obama administration.

And as evil as the attack on these nuns is from obamacare, here is an article with the current listing of the over 300 companies that have cut employee hours and/or benefits due to obamacare:

http://news.investors.com/politics-obamacare/092513-669013-obamacare-employer-mandate-a-list-of-cuts-to-work-hours-jobs.htm?fromcampaign=1

Obamacare is bad law. It is having a negative impact on our nation, and things will get worse.
Everything Obama and his illk have claimed about obamacare has been shown to have been complete lies.

Remember this when the jackass party tries to convince us that national socialist health care is the only thing that will fix the problems brought on by obamacare.

The vast majority of these Colleges already had caps for adjuncts. That’s the nature of adjunct teaching. It’s PART TIME.

Wolf Blitzer and Michele Bachmann Brawl Over the Benefits of Obamacare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v

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You remain clueless. Of course part-time positions do not typically provide benefits like employer-paid health insurance. The fact is that busniesses and educational institutions are decreasing the number of full time positions because they cannot afford the increased costs of health care for employees under the deranged obamacare mandate. This means they have to limit and/or decrease the number of full-time positions. They are admitting that this has to be done due to the increased costs of obamacare.

I know leftists have a hard time with economics but try to understand this. You claim obamacare is such a great deal because people who cannot afford to pay the increased premium costs under obamacare (now that the left is having to admit that obamacare is more expensive than pre-obamacare insurance) will have their expenditure reduced by subsidies. Tell me, TO, where does the money come from to pay all the subsidies? Taxpayers, right? OK…so if people are being reduced to PART-TIME work only, doesn’t that mean their incomes are going to go down from their previous full-time position? So….if the individual’s income is decreased, that means their taxable income goes down, which means less money going to the government – and potentially the governmwnt will have to PAY the taxpayer money in the form of EITC, should the part-time worker’s income be low enough to qualify. So for every person who previously had employer-provided health insurance – at no cost to the taxpayer – who now loses that coverage and goes onto the exchange and qualifies for a subsidy from the taxpayer, doesn’t that automatically make obamacare more expensive than the previous system?

We know from recent figures that roughly 47% of Americans do not pay income tax. We know that Obama’s pathetic economic policies have led to over 44 million Americans being on the foodstamp rolls. Presumably these 44 million people do not pay taxes, nor do the 7.3% of the currently unemployed. So tell me, TO, just where are we supposed to get the money to pay for all this “free” health care? Tell me also, exactly how are healthcare premiums going to go down by $2500 per year, like your hero Obama said they would?

See…conservatives are people who matured out of the ‘magical thinking’ phase of development once we got to 6 years old or so. People who ascribe to the leftist worldview are people who haven’t matured out of that mode of thinking that just because you want something hard enough, and that because you think you have good intentions, that what you want will magically happen and all will work out as you believe it should. Reality has a manner of presenting itself, though sometimes it may take awhile.

Obamacare is evil. Here is a group of nuns who are doing charity work for people in need, and under obamacare these nuns are being forced to violate their religious beliefs and subjugate themselves to an oppressive state mandate, in a clear violation of the 1st Amendment right to free expression of religion. I know this is beyond the comprehension of the majority of leftists, but your right to self-sterilization and abortaficient birth control does not give you the right to force me or anyone else to pay for it. Your desire not to have children does not give you the right to force me or other religious people to violate our religious tenets on birth control or abortion. Sebelius and her acolytes are trying to force people doing charitable work to violate their religious beliefs – and it is unconstitutional.

There is nothing good in obamacare. It is a poorly constructed cage painted over with cheap gold flakes that are chipping off rapidly as we are seeing more of what obamacare is made.

this is the worse we heard so far, asking charity organisation as such to do their plan or pay a fine of one million dollar,
defund the obamacare ,Reopen the government and arrest the white house double lock it down,
and fire HARRY REID AND NANCY PELOSI, well fire them all while you’re at it.
AMERICAN DON’T BELONG IN THE MUDD THEY ARE DRAGGING THEM IN, THIS MUDD IS INFECTED,
the republican don’t like to get dirty,
well go on get dirty and sink them deep enough so they beg you to negociate