On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., laid out the Senate’s legislative agenda for the “coming weeks.” Listed among his top priorities was legislation to “correct” the Hobby Lobby decision.
Since the Supreme Court’s ruling in June, congressional Democrats have vowed to protect employer-sponsored insurance coverage of contraception and abortion-inducing drugs mandated by the Department of Health and Human Services.
“We’re going to do something about the Hobby Lobby legislation we need to correct,” said Reid.
Reid’s comments echo similar sentiments from top Democrat leaders. Sens. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., are currently leading a legislative push against the court’s decision.
“In the coming days I will work with my colleagues and the administration to protect this access, regardless of who signs your paycheck,” said Murray in astatement released shortly after the Hobby Lobby ruling.
Sarah Torre, a policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation, argued there were other means by which the government could provide access to contraception and abortion-inducing drugs without relying on employer-sponsored health care coverage.
“There are plenty of other ways for the government to provide these drugs and devices to women who wanted them without forcing family businesses to violate their conscience,” said Torre.
“Americans do not give up their religious freedom simply because they go into business to provide for themselves, their families, and employees,” Torre added. “The Supreme Court recognized that by ruling against the Obama Administration’s unfair and coercive rule.”
Justice Samuel Alito argued in the court’s opinion that the HHS had the means to provide the disputed contraception without forcing employers to ignore their religious convictions, writing:
“HHS has not shown that it lacks other means of achieving its desired goal without imposing a substantial burden on the exercise of religion. The Government could, e.g., assume the cost of providing the four contraceptives to women unable to obtain coverage due to their employers’ religious objections.”
Currently, Democrats are weighing legislative options. Durbin said last week that he would introduce legislation which would force businesses to notify employees and job applicants of its contraception coverage.
http://dailysignal.com/2014/07/08/harry-reid-hobby-lobby-decision-going-something/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/CortneyOBrien/2014/07/09/sigh-senate-dems-introduce-bill-to-override-hobby-lobby-decision-n1860401
Harry Reid's DIRTY Little Secret
ReplyDeleteby Aaronita Smith
Sen. Harry Reid knows that his fellow Mormon leaders are aware of a hard-core pornographic drawing in the "Book of Abraham" which is Mormon-approved scripture.
This Book is part of the "Pearl of Great Price" which, along with the "Book of Mormon" and the "Doctrine and Covenants," make up the LDS church's "triple combination" in one volume.
The porn is found in Fig. 7 of Facsimile 2 in the "Book of Abraham" which shows two beings facing each other, which were described by Joseph Smith as representing the "Holy Ghost" and "God sitting upon his throne," the latter clearly showing an aroused male sex organ.
After Smith published this sketch in his newspaper in 1842, which offended Mormon sensibilities, the phallic portion was whited out for more than a century until the "restored" LDS church decided in 1981 to restore what had long been censored!
Equally shocking was the discovery that the "Book of Abraham" has nothing to do with Abraham or his God but was actually based on ancient Egyptian funeral documents depicting occultic obscene practices - and the original sketches showed an erotic phallus on both beings including the one Smith blasphemously claimed was the Holy Ghost!
Dirty Harry is a member of the blasphemous counterfeit of real Christianity known as hypocritical MOReMONeyISM which has a 184-year-old history of fooling the unwary with false reports about "buried treasure" and "golden plates" in New York along with Smith's later land speculation and illegal banking in Ohio and finally money counterfeiting in Illinois and Utah! As long as the Mormon church refuses to excommunicate Harry Greed, this paper you're now reading will circulate around the world!
For more information see "Book of Abraham" (Wikipedia). Also see Jerald and Sandra Tanner's "Mormonism - Shadow or Reality?" which reproduces the original Egyptian X-rated drawings and shows how Smith altered them and created one of his many frauds. (Smith would have been proud of Dirty Harry!) Highlights in the classic Tanner work can be seen by typing "Facts from Mormons (By a Utah Resident)" and "What LDS Leaders Say" on Yahoo.