Justice Sonia Sotomayor rejected an emergency request for an injunction to prevent HHS from enforcing the contraception mandate on Hobby Lobby’s Catholic owners, but even she had to acknowledge that the firm may win on the merits when the full appeal is heard. The company’s Catholic owners say the contraception mandate violates their religious freedom. “While the applicants allege they will face irreparable harm if they are forced to choose between complying with the contraception-coverage requirement and paying significant fines, they cannot show that an injunction is necessary or appropriate to aid our jurisdiction,” Sotomayor wrote in a short opinion. An attorney for the firm says the chain plans to defy the federal mandate requiring it to offer employees health coverage which includes access to the morning-after pill. They could face potential fines of $1.3 million per day.
COMMENTS:
When are America’s religious leaders going to stand up for
what they supposedly believe in? Or, as
I suspect, are organized religions in this country simply a money-making scam
sham scheme?
TODAY’S QUERIES & ANSWERS:
Q. That Harry Reid is such a mean spirited man. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a nice word out
of him. How does he ever manage to get
reelected? (Tamara ~ Dana Point, CA)
A. Like Obama, Pelosi and the rest of the left-wing
Democrats, he does it by employing trash politics. Here he is trashing John Boehner for not
getting us past the fiscal cliff while Reid has flatly refused to obey the law
and pass a national budget for three straight years. By rights, Reid should be impeached for
failing to obey the Constitution, just as Obama should be impeached over
Benghazi. (Pelosi doesn’t deserve to be
impeached, however; she should just be hung by her testicles).
Q. Several times in your blogs you have alluded to belief in
God and a prescription for more religious principles in this country. Do you feel that we have lost our spiritual
way? (Jean ~ Anaheim, CA)
A. Beyond any doubt we have indeed lost our religious way. Part of the reason is the constant assault on
our religious traditions by left-wing atheist liberals; part of the blame is
the failing structure of religious leadership and refusal to speak to America
about what is going wrong with our society.
In fact, it sometimes appears to me that organized religions now bend to
the will of their memberships simply in order to raise more money, whereas the
fundamental tenets of belief in a religion should always prevail. And, to a large extent, so many of us have
become hedonists; we refuse to allow religion to interfere with our worldly
pleasures and self-indulgences.
Q. I see a Maryland Wedding Chapel is closing its doors
because it refuses to perform gay weddings.
Is that legal? (Harvey ~ San
Francisco, CA)
A. Matt Grubbs, the owner, says "We're
a Christian-owned business, and we are not able to lend support to gay
marriages." If he stayed open, the
law would not allow him to discriminate between gay and straight
marriages. I believe he has a religious
right to deny marriage to gays at his chapel, but he can’t afford to fight the
matter in court any longer. It’s just
another liberal-left anti-religious move that we Americans should be fighting
like hell.
TODAY’S QUOTE:
“The only good husbands stay bachelors:
They're too considerate to get married.” ~ Finley Peter
Dunne
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