Priests for Life vs. HHS at the Supreme Court: Here are the facts

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Seven consolidated cases, representing 37 distinct petitioners, will be heard in the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday in the case of Zubik vs. Burwell, which challenges the same mandate which Hobby Lobby successfully challenged, namely, the requirement that insurance policies cover abortion-inducing drugs, contraceptives, sterilization and related counseling.
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The difference is that in this case, the petitioners – myself among them – are not businesses, but rather religious non-profits.
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Along with objecting to the mandate itself, we petitioners are objecting to the regulatory mechanism, or “accommodation,” which the government claims allows us to “opt-out” of the mandate.
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We are claiming that the “accommodation” itself makes us complicit in the very coverage from which it claims to release us, and substantially burdens our exercise of religion in a way that fails to meet the strict test imposed on the government by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
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**We are all “complicit” in our country’s creation and deployment of a massive nuclear weapons force of retaliation.
Where are the outrage, protest, and court filings against that travesty?
I understand your religious objections to paying for women’s reproductive health,
but, until I see the same objection your tax dollars paying for SSBNs and ICBMs,
I must (with all due respect) consider your present concerns to be hypocritical. **
 
jeffrey_erwin said:
**We are all “complicit” in our country’s creation and deployment of a massive nuclear weapons force of retaliation.
Where are the outrage, protest, and court filings against that travesty?
I understand your religious objections to paying for women’s reproductive health,
but, until I see the same objection your tax dollars paying for SSBNs and ICBMs,
I must (with all due respect) consider your present concerns to be hypocritical. **
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One million unborn have died in the last year in the US alone.

How many have died from SSBN’s and ICBM’s last year worldwide?
 
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One million unborn have died in the last year in the US alone.
How many have died from SSBN’s and ICBM’s last year worldwide?
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The creation and deployment of these SSBNs and ICBMs constitutes a gross violation of our Creator’s two primary commandments: To Love YHWH our God and to Love Our Neighbors.
Scripture predicts that YHWH will allow the natural outcome of this violation to take place, even enable it:

The nations have sunk into a pit of their own making,
they are caught by the feet in the snare they set themselves.
YHWH . . .has trapped the wicked in the work of their own hands.

**I am not saying that your objections to participating in women’s health care are wrong.
What I am saying is that these strenuous objections are hypocritical in the face of the deafening silence about the travesty of our country’s creation of an evil system of massive retaliation. **
 
What an irony that the HHS demands that the Priests for Life pay not only for contraceptives but sterilization and abortifacients.
 
Our prayer for the religious freedom we’ve always had but is now under attack and for life, the unborn, disabled and elderly. Lord hear our prayer.
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