Yesterday, Judge Brian Cogan of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, not onlystruck down Obamacare's contraception mandate as applied to religious non-profit organizations, but also sent a strong signal that federal courts were losing patience with President Obama's many stitches of executive power.Previous courts had ruled against President Obama's contraception mandate as applied to for-profit entities (see Sebelius v Hobby Lobby), but this was the first court to hold that participating in Obama's scheme to provide free birth control is a substantial burden on the free practice of religion (specifically the Catholic Archdiocese of New York and its affiliate organizations).The contraception mandate "directly compels plaintiffs, through the threat of onerous penalties, to undertake actions that their religion forbids," Cogan wrote. "There is no way that a court can, or should, determine that a coerced violation of conscience is of insufficient quantum to merit constitutional protection."
Normal-people type Americans still know how to assert what is right and true in the face of Freedom-Hater vitriol and thuggery.
I think Obama would really like to resign and take Mandela's place on the world stage. If we are not through with change we can believe in on unto my passing from this sphere which hopefully won't be for several decades yet, the clock has struck midnight, this day is done.
ReplyDeleteMy little Christmas wish: that your moment of passing is indeed decades off, and that the intervening time involves a dramatic reversal of the course of Western civilization so that we may all enjoy a delicious level of freedom, economic robustness, technological inventiveness, and cultural richness and vibrancy.
ReplyDeleteWell, thank you. Momentous is the moment.
ReplyDeleteFreedom for Catholic Health Services but perhaps not for its employees who, well, now must pay for their own condoms and birth control or become Presbyterian who everybody knows have only 2 offspring and do not fret about birth control, only their bank accounts, lol.
ReplyDeleteRead more at http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-12-16/n-dot-y-dot-catholics-groups-win-court-bar-to-contraception-mandate-1
Catholic Health Services of Long Island, the largest of the groups, oversees six hospitals, three nursing homes and a hospice service and has a health plan covering almost 25,000 people.