Life News reports.
Excerpt:
Hobby Lobby’s battle against the HHS mandate is headed to the Supreme Court, as the high court today agreed to hear its lawsuit against the controversial provision in Obamacare. The Obama administration is attempting to make it comply with the HHS mandate that compels religious companies to pay for birth control and abortion-causing drugs for their employees.
However, the U.S. Supreme Court today agreed to take up Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., a landmark case addressing the Constitutionally guaranteed rights of business owners to operate their family companies without violating their deeply held religious convictions. This is good news to the Green family, who own the store.
“This is a major step for the Greens and their family businesses in an important fight for Americans’ religious liberty,” said Kyle Duncan, general counsel of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and lead lawyer for Hobby Lobby. “We are hopeful that the Supreme Court will clarify once and for all that religious freedom in our country should be protected for family business owners like the Greens.”
The Obama administration says it is confident it will prevail, saying, “We believe this requirement is lawful…and are confident the Supreme Court will agree.”
“My family and I are encouraged that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide our case,” said Mr. Green, Hobby Lobby’s founder and CEO. “This legal challenge has always remained about one thing and one thing only: the right of our family businesses to live out our sincere and deeply held religious convictions as guaranteed by the law and the Constitution. Business owners should not have to choose between violating their faith and violating the law.”
The Supreme Court is also taking the case of the Mennonite cabinet makers forced to pay for birth control and abortion-causing drugs.
I think many people throw around the word “fascism” without really understanding what the word means. But this HHS mandate is a textbook case of fascism.
Here is the Merriam-Webster definition:
: a way of organizing a society in which a government ruled by a dictator controls the lives of the people and in which people are not allowed to disagree with the government
: very harsh control or authority
Now, right away, it should be obvious that there is no such thing as right-wing fascism. If right-wing stands for anything, it stands for free-market capitalism, free trade, private property and individual rights (e.g. – free speech, right to life, etc.). Right-wing politics means the freedom to spend what you earn on what you choose to spend it on. Because it’s your money – you earned it. Fascism requires the government to control your basic liberties, including what you earn, and how you spend what you earn. That’s why fascism is solely a phenomenon of the political left. Only the political left wants to tell you how much of your earnings you can keep, and how much of your earnings must be spent on things you don’t need. They have all kinds of reasons why they are justified in taking your money, but all their reasons amount to the same things: their values are higher than your values. Even if you worked for the money, they know better than you do what to spend it on. And if it violates your conscience to spend it on abortion drugs, then you can either pay or go to jail. Fascism.
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I’m glad the Supreme Court has decided to hear this case and I’m praying for a decision which will defend religious liberty in our country. A loss in this, I think, would signal the start of a much broader “legal” attack on people of faith.
However, I do wonder about the use of the term “fascist” because purely based upon the definition quoted, we do not have a dictator. Perhaps you simply meant to make it analogous, but I think other parts of the definition are debatable as well.
Anyway, thanks for the post!
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I mean that the government is forcing people to act against their individual religious values. I just edited the post to use the first definition instead of the second, hope that’s better.
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From the World English Dictionary, for “dictator”:
“1. a ruler who is not effectively restricted by a constitution, laws, recognized opposition, etc ”
I think that with the Left controlling the government schools, the mainstream media, HollyWeird, the Executive branch, the Senate, and a major part of the House (RINOS + Dems), and with Obama clearly trampling the Constitution for the past 5 years, this definition is awfully close, if not spot on – especially when one focusses on the qualifier “effectively.”
WK, thank you for posting this – I have been using the term “liberal fascism,” and this piece proves that I have been redundant in my communications. Very helpful.
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Also, there is this from respected moderate Charles Krauthammer:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-the-democrats-outbreak-of-lawlessness/2013/11/28/3184b6f2-579b-11e3-8304-caf30787c0a9_story.html
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