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The nationwide chain known as Hobby Lobby has just announced that it is suing the Obama Administration for violation of religious liberty and conscience over Obamacare’s abortion and contraceptive mandate.
This Christian-owned company must provide the morning-after-pill and “week after pill” in its health insurance plan or face a crippling fine of up to $1.3 million dollars a day!
David Green, CEO and founder of Hobby Lobby is outraged by the abortion mandate: “By being required to make a choice between sacrificing our faith or paying millions of dollars in fines, we essentially must choose which poison pill to swallow. We simply cannot abandon our religious beliefs to comply with this mandate.”
Green continued: “It is by God’s grace and provision that Hobby Lobby has endured. Therefore we seek to honor God by operating the company in a manner consistent with Biblical principles. The conflict for me is that our family is being forced to choose between following the laws of the country that we love or maintaining the religious beliefs that have made our business successful and have supported our family and thousands of our employees and their families.”
Obama’s attack on religious liberty through his socialized health care program is clearly unconstitutional and an affront to our First Amendment rights. Religious liberty was considered the first liberty when this country was founded. Those who came to America did so to escape religious persecution in Europe.
It is bad enough that Obamacare is forcing all Americans to buy a product they may not want or can’t afford. It is worse when Christian-owned businesses are forced to pay for medicines that kill unborn babies. This amounts to being a slave of the abortion industry and the contraceptive manufacturers. We thought slavery was abolished after the Civil War. Obama has apparently decided to bring it back.
Hobby Lobby will be defended by the Becket Fund For Religious Liberty. Learn more about this case at the Becket Fund web site.
I DO agree with Hobby Lobby’s stand. Please make no mistake about that.
The only thing I wish to clarify is the difference between the so called morning after pill that is available over the counter – Plan B or the generic Next Choice- and the newer “week after” pill Ella. Plan B and Next Choice are not abortifacients. Their use does NOT disturb a pregnancy in progress but, similar to oral contraceptives, provide a dose of progesterone that is designed to make transport of sperm less optional, preventing the meeting of sperm and egg. This information is readily available via scientific literature.
The action of ELLA is closer to that of RU486, which IS an abortifacient.
Certainly, if one is opposed to the use of oral contraceptives, then Plan B (Next Choice) would not be an appropriate choice.
Again, I champion Hobby Lobby’s right to stand up for infringement of it’s right to uphold it’s beliefs, but want to make sure that correct information is shared. There is far too much misinformation being shared on all fronts. There is plenty of valid information out there to support a prolife view.