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WASHINGTON On the defensive, the Obama administration Thursday scrambled to explain its requirement that church-affiliated employers cover birth control as House Speaker John Boehner called it unconstitutional and demanded immediate reconsideration.
Under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law, most employers and insurance plans will have to cover birth control free of charge as a preventive service for women. The administration already ruled that churches and houses of worship do not have to follow that requirement, but officials recently announced that many religious-affiliated institutions such as hospitals, colleges and charities must comply.
The wave of protest that followed has clearly taken administration officials by surprise. Catholics, Protestant evangelicals and others across the political spectrum criticized the decision.
"I think this mandate violates our Constitution," Boehner, R-Ohio, said Thursday. "I think it violates the rights of these religious organizations. And I would hope that the administration would back up and take another look at this." .................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20120202/US.Birth.Control.Religious.Employers/
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Boehnhead (Original Post)
marmar
Feb 2012
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Only if they employee only people who 'believe' as they do, which I think is against the law.
sinkingfeeling
Feb 2012
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Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)1. Go To Hell weeping boner
sinkingfeeling
(51,498 posts)2. Only if they employee only people who 'believe' as they do, which I think is against the law.
If not, they are claiming that their beliefs are more important than those of their employees. Offering free birth control to employees does not force anybody to take it. If 75% of those who work at a Catholic college are not Catholics, then I see their refusal to obey the law as what's wrong.
KatyMan
(4,220 posts)3. As I said in another thread on this, why
does a church think it can pick and choose what laws to follow?
Vincardog
(20,234 posts)4. The first amendment guarantees us freedom FROM religion, what right does
Bonehead claim to exempt some corporations from legal requirements?