A Victory for Religious Liberties!

from Ohio Christian Alliance
http://ohioca.org
July 1, 2014

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the HHS mandate in the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare. In its 5-4 decision, the court reaffirmed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RRFA)of 1993, which provides for very broad protection of religious liberty. Justice Samuel Alito wrote in his majority opinion, over a dissent from the four liberal justices, that forcing companies to pay for methods of women's contraception to which they object violates RRFA. Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Woods, plaintiffs in the case, faced huge fines under Obamacare's penalties if they did not comply with the mandate to provide contraceptives and abortifacient drugs for their employees in the company's health care plan. With this decision, neither the Green family, owners of Hobby Lobby Stores, nor the Hahn family, owners of Conestoga Wood Specialties, are required to fund abortion-inducing pills through their company insurance plan. 

The Green Family, Owners of Hobby Lobby Stores, risked all that they had worked for over the years to take a stand for right and conscience and religious liberty. The following is a statement released by the family: 

"Our family is overjoyed by the Supreme Court's decision. Today the nation's highest court has re-affirmed the vital importance of religious liberty as one of our country's founding principles. The Court's decision is a victory, not just for our family business, but for all who seek to live out their faith. We are grateful to God and to those who have supported us on this difficult journey." Barbara Green, co-founder/owner of Hobby Lobby

Vote No On Obama's Healthcare Plan

Dear American,

Please take the time to ask your congressman and your Senators to vote no on H.R. 3200 (The America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009). And please pass this on!

This bill would:

(If you get sick of reading the following list, just skip down to where it says WORST OF ALL.)

Socialize medicine, require healthcare rationing, would restrict homeschooling rights, give the government that right to decide what medical treatments you can and can’t have, provide free healthcare for non-citizens, exempt from individual taxes any nonresident alien, require you to have a national healthcare ID card, give government access to your bank account, fix the salaries of all doctors (they will all make the same amount no matter how good or bad they are), give the new HC Administration access to all medical records of all Americans, penalize hospitals for what government deems preventable readmissions (incentives for hospital to not treat and release), mandate that hospitals cannot expand (“number of operating rooms or beds”), allow government agencies to disqualify HMOs and other private plans, restrict enrollment of special needs people, mandate Advance (Death) Care Planning consultation, issue payments to community-based organizations (like ACORN), mandate government marriage counseling, mandate mental health services, eliminate choice in residencies of medical students, require forced vaccinations, mandate drug prices, mandate the educating of parents as to how they should raise their children, require doctors to perform two years of service in the National Health Service Corps which would be established under this bill, establish a Public Health Workforce Corps to ensure an adequate supply of public health professionals (after doing just about all it can to drive people away from choosing that profession), develop “Healthy People & National Public Health Performance Standards”, establish school-based “health” clinics (in which abortions could be performed), and establish a National Medical Device Registry.

If the services you receive from this federal government healthcare plan result in malpractice, you would have no legal recourse against the federal government. Any individual who refuses to go on the government plan would be required to pay an additional 2.5% on their income taxes.

Section 441 says in lines 14-15 - “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax.”

WORST OF ALL, not only would this bill fund abortions (OR MAYBE EVEN FORCE WOMEN TO HAVE ABORTIONS, see section 1713 lines 3-5) and other “family planning services”, but would also force all private health insurance companies to provide abortion coverage.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.3200:

Sincerely,

Matt