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   On 12/31/2012 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:   
   > Late yesterday, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied an appeal   
   > to temporarily delay the Obamacare contraception mandate. It requires   
   > workers health benefit plans to cover the morning after pill and other   
   > emergency contraception.   
   >   
   >   
   > In September, Hobby Lobby, it's a chain of more than 500 arts and crafts   
   > stores and its sister company of Christian themed book stores sued the   
   > government claiming that the HHS mandate violated the religious rights   
   > of the company's owners, the Green family. The Greens are Evangelical   
   > Christians.   
   >   
   > The Oklahoma base company requested emergency relief from the emergency   
   > contraception mandate after a lower court denied their request for a   
   > religious exemption. The new rule goes in to effect on New Year's day.   
   > Although Sotomayor didn't rule on the merits of the case her refusal to   
   > grant a temporary stay of the HHS contraception in abortifacient rule is   
   > onerous.   
   >   
   > So starting next week the company will either have to pay a daily fine   
   > of $1.3 million dollars or stop offering their employees' healthcare, or   
   > abide by the rule and violate their religious conscience. Now, it's   
   > worth noting that when she sat on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals,   
   > Judge Sotomayor ruled in favor of the religious rights of a Muslim   
   > inmate who was denied a Ramadan meal in prison.   
   >   
   > Now, she was asked about that case and the religious liberty issue at   
   > her confirmation hearing.   
   >   
   > (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)   
   >   
   > SONIA SOTOMAYOR, SUPREME COURT JUSTICE: It is a very important and   
   > central part of our democratic society that we do give freedom of   
   > religion, practice of religion, that the Constitution restricts the   
   > state from establishing a religion and that we have freedom of   
   > expression in speech as well. Those freedoms are central to our   
   > Constitution.   
   >   
   > (END VIDEO CLIP)   
   >   
   > INGRAHAM: I agree and don't religious people who own companies also have   
   > religious rights? It turns out as many feared the President's religious   
   > exemption to the contraception mandate is so narrow as to be   
   > meaningless. Unless you employ and serve only those of your same   
   > religious faith you don't receive an exemption.   
   >   
   > So under that standard, Jesus himself would not qualify. The Little   
   > Sisters of the Poor, a saintly order of nuns who give beautiful care and   
   > housing to our nation's indigent seniors have already warned that due to   
   > this Obamacare mandate they may have to shutter their homes all across   
   > the United States, which would be a tragedy. This is unconscionable and   
   > unconstitutional.   
   >   
   > The President can and must step in to stop this madness.   
   >   
   > And that's "The Memo."   
      
   How's this for a memo:  Socialism destroys society.   
      
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