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BandMaster Since: Sep 11 2,136 Location hidden	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #1 Feb 12, 2012 Judged: 5 3 3 It's really about how much communism this country can tolerate before we throw Comrad Obama out on his ear?
Ex-GOP Con New York, NY	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #2 Feb 12, 2012 Judged: 4 4 4 Can't these religious institutions just tell their sheep not to buy contraceptives? They have the freedom to buy contraceptives or not under this plan.
Eric Gustafson Newport News, VA	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #3 Feb 12, 2012 Judged: 1 1 1 McConnell and the GOP want's so bad to frame the debate. It's getting down right pathetic to hear from them terming this about Freedom of Expression. There are some Religions in America who can, if we allow them our ear long enough, provide a justification for slavery along a religious test, and interracial marriage as an abomination to man kind. What's the difference in the Catholic stance and Liberty University policy against students interracial dating as a doctrine?
Mitt s Airtight Dog Crate Philadelphia, PA	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #4 Feb 12, 2012 Judged: 1 1 1 BandMaster wrote: It's really about how much communism this country can tolerate before we throw Comrad Obama out on his ear? Hey ignorant racist, about 28 states have had similar clauses regarding charitable or educational institutions run by the RCC or other religions for years. Mormons, imo, and Muslims say it should be okay to have many wives. We don't permit unfettered "religious" freedom. The employees of these charitable and educational institutions are not RCC or other church employees. They are non profits' employees in a secular country, entitled to rational, important health care. Actual employees of the RCC and other churches really do have to go outside their employer healthcare plans to get birth control...but why they're working at such churches if they need birth control in the first place is beyond me.
Just Sayin Toledo, OH	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #5 Feb 12, 2012 Judged: 2 1 1 It's about discrimination. Obama has waived the healthcare mandate for Muslims, Amish, Native American and McDonalds. Anyone who does not fit in this catagory should claim discrimination.
Gravediggers United States	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #6 Feb 12, 2012 Judged: 1 1 1 END of ObamaCare! And why did the Pilgrims come to America?
Mitt s Airtight Dog Crate Philadelphia, PA	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #7 Feb 12, 2012 Judged: 1 1 1 Just Sayin wrote: It's about discrimination. Obama has waived the healthcare mandate for Muslims, Amish, Native American and McDonalds. Anyone who does not fit in this catagory should claim discrimination. No lying filth, Catholics Churches are likewise exempt, and always have been in the 28 states which have had this policy for years. Make up better lies, you cretin.
Gravediggers United States	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #8 Feb 12, 2012 Judged: 3 2 2 The Lutheran Church has also been attacked by the Obama administration. The Department of Justice, got the go ahead from Attorney General, Eric Holder to file suit against the Lutheran church. The DOJ wanted to tell the Lutheran church who their minister should be. http://cnsnews.com/blog/terence-p-jeffrey/doj... Obama is an attack on religious freedoms. NO in NOvember Reclaim the Senate in 2012. Give the new President assistance to undo ObamaCare and get this nation back on track. We don't need democrat senate domination with Harry Reid. OUT with democrat senators!

Mitt s Airtight Dog Crate Philadelphia, PA	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #9 Feb 12, 2012 Gravediggers wrote: The Lutheran Church has also been attacked by the Obama administration. The Department of Justice, got the go ahead from Attorney General, Eric Holder to file suit against the Lutheran church. The DOJ wanted to tell the Lutheran church who their minister should be. You lie. The facts of this case were quite complex. The Supreme Court eventually ruled against the Justice Dept, I believe, but said that churches do not have unlimited scope to declare who is and who isn't a clergy person as a way to avoid legal or employment responsibilities. In this case the church had said she was a minister (who taught) until she reported became ill and could not teach._Then_ the church tried to separate from her and say she was not a minister...for purposes of sick leave or disability, etc. That's a pretty scummy church. Churches are not exempt from laws - for example, laws barring polygamy - but applying the law can get difficult when there's a gray area of teaching minister versus church employee teacher versus lay teacher versus volunteer teacher, for example.
PlacitasRoy Since: Sep 08 18,910 Placitas, NM	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #10 Feb 12, 2012 Judged: 1 1 1 Mitt s Airtight Dog Crate wrote: <quoted text> You lie. The facts of this case were quite complex. The Supreme Court eventually ruled against the Justice Dept, I believe, but said that churches do not have unlimited scope to declare who is and who isn't a clergy person as a way to avoid legal or employment responsibilities. In this case the church had said she was a minister (who taught) until she reported became ill and could not teach._Then_ the church tried to separate from her and say she was not a minister...for purposes of sick leave or disability, etc. That's a pretty scummy church. Churches are not exempt from laws - for example, laws barring polygamy - but applying the law can get difficult when there's a gray area of teaching minister versus church employee teacher versus lay teacher versus volunteer teacher, for example. And it was Dubya's EEOC that filed the initial suit.
Eric Gustafson Newport News, VA	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #11 Feb 12, 2012 Judged: 1 1 1 Gravediggers wrote: END of ObamaCare! And why did the Pilgrims come to America? It was simple, it was banishment to the wilderness or, off with their heads in England. Given the choice they chose the Wilderness of the New World over going Headless in England. Are you a Teabagger, seems some of you are always trying to change the accurate history of the facts.
PlacitasRoy Since: Sep 08 18,910 Placitas, NM	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #12 Feb 12, 2012 Judged: 1 1 1 "President Obama's initial decision was a DEFENSE of religious freedom! Religious freedom is a right of PEOPLE not their corporate bosses....even if those corporate bosses work for non-profit corporations and wear magnificent gold embroidered power robes and gold crowns!! The OLD supposedly celibate bachelors and the Evangelical fundamentalist dictators, must believe that, without the force of law to restrain them, the Catholics employees at a hospital will run down and get prescriptions for birth control pills. It should NEVER be management's right, even if the managers wear vestments and gold crowns and dump their scared sperm on their bedsheets, to impose their religions dogma on their employees.
Eric Gustafson Newport News, VA	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #13 Feb 12, 2012 This is cruddy as the truth. Typical of the Right supplied objectionable reading. Gravediggers wrote: The Lutheran Church has also been attacked by the Obama administration. The Department of Justice, got the go ahead from Attorney General, Eric Holder to file suit against the Lutheran church. The DOJ wanted to tell the Lutheran church who their minister should be. http://cnsnews.com/blog/terence-p-jeffrey/doj... Obama is an attack on religious freedoms. NO in NOvember Reclaim the Senate in 2012. Give the new President assistance to undo ObamaCare and get this nation back on track. We don't need democrat senate domination with Harry Reid. OUT with democrat senators!
Eric Gustafson Newport News, VA	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #14 Feb 12, 2012 Judged: 2 1 1 Just Sayin wrote: It's about discrimination. Obama has waived the healthcare mandate for Muslims, Amish, Native American and McDonalds. Anyone who does not fit in this catagory should claim discrimination. Weren't you one of those bigots protesting the Muslims building their Community Center on a plot of land they owned in Manhattan near ground zero? Now you seems to have "Caught Religion" and understanding and sympathetic of the Muslims?
Mitt s Airtight Dog Crate Philadelphia, PA	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #15 Feb 12, 2012 Gravediggers wrote: END of ObamaCare! And why did the Pilgrims come to America? They were being harassed by other flavors of xstainity from their own. The RC churches are exempt. Just as they have been in the many state plans like this one that have been in place for years.
scout Oakland, CA	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #16 Feb 12, 2012 Judged: 3 1 1 Oh, very interesting. This neo-Marxist loser better vote for Ron Paul.
Gravediggers United States	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #17 Feb 12, 2012 Judged: 2 It's ok to be anti-catholic, anti-Lutheran, but you can't be anti jewish.
Gravediggers United States	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #18 Feb 12, 2012 Judged: 3 2 2 No religious freedom in the USA according to 'Eric the Red. Out with Obama in 2012. Reclaim the Senate in 2012. NO in NOvember! Bammuy got caught flat-footed!
Ex-GOP Con Allen, TX	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #19 Feb 12, 2012 Judged: 1 1 1 I still fail to see how this plan forces anyone to buy contraceptives. They still have the freedom to practice their religion and refuse to take advantage of contraception. Making a mountain out of a mole hill....geez.
Ex-GOP Con Allen, TX	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #20 Feb 12, 2012 Judged: 2 2 2 What next? Is McConell going to whine about Maine's lobster industry for "forcing" them to eat shellfish?
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