Obama Justice Department to Colorado Family: Give Up Your Faith or Your Business
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, September 27, 2012, 8:09 AM
The owners of Hercules Industries — from left to right, James Newland, Paul Newland, William Newland, Andrew Newland — won an injunction in July to stop the Obama administration’s health care mandate that requires employers provide coverage for abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization and contraception — a requirement they say violates their Catholic beliefs. (Courtesy: ADFMedia.org)
The Obama Justice Department appealed a court ruling and will push forward in its quest to punish a Catholic family in Colorado for refusing to comply with its anti-Catholic HHS mandate.
LifeSiteNews reported:
A judge’s order will not stop the Obama administration from pressing forward in its quest to punish a Catholic family’s business for refusing to comply with the HHS mandate.
Hercules Industries, an HVAC business in Denver, won an injunction against the controversial provision requiring employers to cover contraceptives, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs in its health care plans on July 27.
On Tuesday, the Justice Department appealed the ruling to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, also based in Denver.
“On the same day President Obama spoke of religious freedom at United Nations, his Justice Department acted to deny that freedom to small business owners,” said Maureen Ferguson and Ashley McGuire of The Catholic Association in a statement e-mailed to LifeSiteNews.com.
The Newland family sued HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, saying the mandate violated their mutual Catholic faith.
“The cost of religious freedom for this family could be millions of dollars per year in fines that would cripple their business and potentially destroy jobs if the administration ultimately has its way,” said Matt Bowman, senior counsel at the Alliance Defending Freedom. “In filing its appeal today, the administration sent a clear message that it wants to force families to abandon their faith in order to earn a living. That’s the opposite of religious freedom.”
The Obama administration has rhetorically shifted from supporting “freedom of religion” to “freedom of worship,” a change its detractors believe is designed to suppress religious opposition to growing secular regulation.
“Under the Obama Constitution, family business owners like the Newlands of Hercules Industries may practice their religion on Sundays, within the four walls of their church, but they have no right to practice that faith during the work week,” Ferguson and McGuire said.
On the same day Obama spoke on religious freedom at the UN and defended Muslims he acted to deny that same freedom to a Catholic business owners.
It’s an Obama world.
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archer52 commented:
Amazing.
What if the Muslims were against it? Would the DOJ follow through? Can it be that liberals and radicals have bedded down with radical Muslims with the single goal of crippling the US and making it an ineffective second tier nation?
Dangerous, foolish, ideological people.
Rhinestone Suderman commented:
archer52, I think you’ve nailed it!
(Gee, wasn’t President Obama just lecturing us about how we need to respect religious sensitivities? Gosh, it’s almost like he’s got a double standard or something, about Christianity vs. Islam! /Sarc.—of course he does!)
Sam Stone commented:
Islam is exempt from ObamaCare is what I hear. Any truth to it?
This is the Obama regime instituting Sharia law in America. He will defend Islam all day l;ong and attack others religions at the same time.
The man must go.
Granny commented:
Muslims are completely EXEMPT from Obamacare on religious grounds. They do not have to purchase insurance because muslims “don’t believe in insurance.”
hawkeye commented:
Eric Holder would explain that they’re more than welcome to convert to and practice Islam. Not all religions are created equal.
Remember what the Constitution says: “Government shall not establish a Christian religion…” it says nothing about Islam being prohibited. Seriously, go look at the Constitution and tell us where it mentions Islam at all!
Flintstone F. commented:
Hercules will prevail. Obama will be out of office in January and we will make sure of that on November 6.
40 days.
YES WE CON! commented:
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BarbaraS commented:
Don’t kid yourselves. The whole point of this contraception farce is to limit white birth. And I would say even black birth. You will notice the muslims are giving birth in astonomentical proportions. Eventually they will outnumber us which they are already doing in the European countries. This is obama’s plan…hit us on all fronts…destroy what has made America great…and decrease our numbers.
archer52 commented:
On that note, Beck is talking about this exact issue. How the Left made agreements with the MB to overthrow the nation.
rabble-rouser commented:
It’s time to take OUR country back from those running it into financail ruin, stripping citizens of their beliefs and freedom to be Christian, and those that sell their morals for campaign donations. I’m sick of this crap. TIME IS UP, and I don’t care if they have a D, R, I , or G after their name
Monkey Wrench commented:
Really? You honestly think that business owners should be allowed to follow only the laws that they feel comply with their religion? So Muslim owners can refuse to hire Jews and discriminate against women? I guess Sharia Law is okay in the workplace?
This was settled by the Supreme Court years ago. Businesses that hire from the general population and/or do business with the general public must comply with business laws and regulations. They cannot use religious arguments to pick and choose which laws and regulations they want to follow.
This is America, so that is the way it should be. We don’t want bosses to impose their religious beliefs on workers.
redbull tweeker commented:
That photo is a perfect depiction of the GOP.
Ha! I bet those pastey-faced, mom-jean wearing limpdix don’t mind having their insurance pay for Viagra.
btw, this article is not about Muslims. Can’t you people stay on topic for more than five seconds???
iamsaved commented:
I used to think the Supreme Court would make wise, common sense decisions but after John Robert’s convoluted logic in the Obamacare challenge, I’m not so sure.
If Obama is elected, he’ll appoint the next two or more justices and you’ll have a government run by Executive Order with a willing judicial branch that will aid and abet it and will legislate from the bench when the Excutive Order doesn’t work. Kiss the First and Second Amendments goodbye because those are the two that stand in Obama’s way now.
Traitors like Harry Reid and his liberal sycophants in the Senate have abbrogated their power in the Legislative Branch and transferred it to Obama. It may not even be worth winning the Senate and House unless there are some bold actions taken.
listingstarboard commented:
Eff you redbull, you morally bankrupt lying POS! Those men in that picure are honest hardworking American taxpayers that bankroll you and all of the other lazy immoral liberal leeches. You and your Mom jean wearing limp POTUS can go to he&&.
Finncrisp commented:
This whole issue is to break the backs of any religious institution that stands for something. When the State intervenes in matters of conscience, eventually the organization becomes meaningless because they have been forced to abandon core values as a condition of continued existance.
Once that happens, relevance goes next.
This is one of the most disturbing things that this administration has done, and it is deliberate and premeditated. A wake up call to churches and fundamentalist businesses everywhere. We can hang together or hang separately. VOTE!
dwdude commented:
stop complaining about him…the cancer must be cut out
Mn Jim commented:
The obama administration has ignored several court injunctions, with no penalty. This administration is above the law. The media harped on Bush’s “warrantless wiretapping” for years, when Bush wanted to listen in on known terrorist phone calls. The media listed number of US dead in the wars every day. Not a peep from the media, or congress when obama ignores injunctions.
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