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Posts tagged 'first amendment':

• When in the course of America’s events… the states must sue the government

  Posted by Susan Michelle on February 27, 2012

  There’s been a lot of talk about what rights states should have in this election season and seven states have decided they have the right to fight the unconstitutional laws of the federal government.

  Last week the attorney generals from Nebraska, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Florida and Texas filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration's birth control mandate which would, by all accounts, require virtually every employer to front the bill for abortifacient birth control without religious exemption. CNN reports:

  The 25-page lawsuit named the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; and the U.S. Department of Labor and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis as defendants.

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• Losing our freedom of religion: What Obama’s mandate could mean for our nation

  Posted by Susan Michelle on February 17, 2012

  Picture a world in which we are required by the government to pay for people’s abortions. Guess what? We’re there. The abortion industry has been allowed a back- door entrance to get mandated abortifacient coverage for the nation and violated the rights of all pro-life Americans.

  What some thought was a Catholic issue has instead proven itself to be an issue of religious liberty. The Obama administration's mandate for employer funded birth control violates the First Amendment rights of every pro-life American. We must respond to this crisis in our nation’s history.

  One of the FDA approved contraceptives is actually an abortion pill. Ella (which chemically resembles RU-486), effectively, turns this birth control mandate into an abortion mandate.

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• Simmer down and pray: getting divine strategy in troubled times

  Posted by Susan Michelle on February 10, 2012

  One of the most important things we can do as Christians is simmer down and pray. The Lord has been speaking intensely to my heart the last couple weeks as we’ve watched the Komen drama happen, followed by the birth control mandate reactions. I don’t so much want to address the situations as what we can do in response.

  This morning I woke up to an onslaught of news on my twitter feed. Friends, leaders, writers, all of them were blasting everything as it came in about the Obama administration’s “compromise” on the mandate and how that wasn’t good enough. It probably isn’t. Planned Parenthood immediately issued a letter endorsing it, which is generally not a sign it’s not a good plan for pro-lifers. I’m fully convinced the whole mandate is a violation of free speech, but that’s not my point here. You can read a number of people who will tell you all you need to know. What I want to remind us of is our highest calling—prayer.

  We are to be intercessors first and activists second. The temptation for me to lash out at every pro-abortion mandate and tell everyone how wrong they are is ingrained in my personality, but Jesus came to overcome even my quirky personality.  Today I want to remind us of His words:

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• Organizations announce First Amendment lawsuits against Obama administration

  Posted by Susan Michelle on February 9, 2012

  And the lawsuits have begun. Today, two major non-church, faith-based organizations have decided to take it to the courts. Fighting the Obama administration for its alleged violation of First Amendment rights, EWTN filed a suit today and Priests for Life issued a news release that it was filing suit as well.

  This morning dawned with an announcement in the center of the civil rights movement where EWTN, the global Catholic broadcasting network, based in Irondale, AL, a Birmingham suburb, filed a lawsuit in US District court. The suit is made more significant because although the organization is Catholic, it’s not a church but a broadcasting network that supports a religious stance. The National Catholic Register story reports that “the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, the public-interest law firm that recently won a unanimous Supreme Court ruling in Hosanna Tabor v. EEOC, a closely watched First Amendment case. Becket is representing EWTN pro bono.”

  Naming Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and other federal agencies, as defendants, the suit declares this is a violation of religious freedom. Michael Warsaw, president and CEO of EWTN, says in the story:

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• Pro-life counselors tried for trespassing after abortion clinic uses sprinkler jet on them

  Posted by Susan Michelle on September 20, 2011

  One of the freedoms we are supposed to enjoy in the United States is the found in the First Amendment. It says, simply, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” It seems that while Congress is forbiiden from making laws, abortion clinics lhave taken the law into their own bloody hands.

  In Montgomery, AL Wednesday a very disturbing case is being tried. You can read a summary here. Two pro-life sidewalk counselors were essentially pushed off the sidewalk by a sprinkler that an abortion clinic uses for the sole purpose of watering those who protest its activities. The Foundation for Moral Law reports:

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• Little-known law targets pro-life free speech rights

  Posted by Susan Michelle on September 13, 2011

  I stand at courthouses and pray. I’ve been known to stand at clinics and pray, too. I stand on the sidewalk. I stand on public property. Usually I pray with tape on my mouth, so it’s a pretty good bet I’m not yelling at anyone. But even if the tape comes off to talk or pray it’s in a normal tone of voice. And I sure don’t touch anyone, let alone block their path or stand in front of a door.

  Oh yeah, and I’m an American citizen who enjoys, among other things, freedom of speech and freedom of religion. That’s why I get to stand on a public sidewalk and pray against abortion, pray for Life. That’s why others can stand across the sidewalk and hold up signs opposing me. Because this is America, and we have rights.

  Except now we may not.

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