By Sahil Kapur
Not satisfied with President ObamaÂ’s new religious accommodation, Republicans will move forward with legislation by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) that permits any employer to deny birth control coverage in their health insurance plans, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Sunday.
“If we end up having to try to overcome the President’s opposition by legislation, of course I’d be happy to support it, and intend to support it,” McConnell said. “We’ll be voting on that in the Senate and you can anticipate that that would happen as soon as possible.”
The Blunt amendment he was specifically referring to would “ensure that health care stakeholders retain the right to provide, purchase, or enroll in health coverage that is consistent with their religious beliefs and moral convictions” under the Affordable Care Act. Similar legislation was introduced by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) before the White House announced Friday that it would allow religious nonprofits such as charities, hospitals and universities to opt out of paying for contraception coverage and force the insurance company to do so instead.
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When Obama announced his "exemption" he did NOT back off from claiming government had a right to force private employers to provide or pay for that which violated their religious beliefs or conscience -THAT is why Republicans haven't dropped it. But you want to pretend that amounts to something despicable? Let's have that debate then, ok? Because I find what government did to be a major violation of the Constitution that opens the door to government just claiming any powers it wants -powers it can only take by stripping them from US. This isn't about birth control -this is about government overstepping its Constitutional authority. The fact you approve of it doing so for THIS issue doesn't guarantee you will like it the next time -but the next time you have no real ability to put a stop to it anymore because you already handed it over to government for a cheap TRINKET.
Where the hell does government get off telling ANY private sector business what benefits MUST be included in any insurance they offer to their employees? Seriously? They have the right to not offer insurance at all -so what do you REALLY think is behind Obama insisting if private sector businesses offer insurance, it must be one dictated by government? Where did liberals get the idea that a one-size fits all approach which is the ONLY one federal government can take -is appropriate whatsoever when it comes to insurance benefits of all things? What if I run a business with numerous employees who have special needs children and they are all past child bearing age and they would prefer to have a policy more tailored to THEIR needs instead of one tailored to a pack of leftwing extremist females pretending they represent women's "rights" and by not offering birth control, it makes adding in a more generous special needs for children more affordable? What benefits my employees and I agree on as the best fit between US is OUR business -NOT that of federal government! Do you REALLY just not get what this means even beyond the Catholic Church??? This is an ABUSE of power by a government being run by power hungry extremists and was crafted to get the least resistance as government seeks to expand its powers and control over individuals.
And does so in the lying ass name of pretending our "rights" come FROM government when in reality the nature of government is to constantly seek to strip us of rights and claim them for itself instead. And the power hungry count on people like YOU who see the dangling trinket and say "gimme, gimme". We have people in this country who think it is preferable to exist as state owned slaves than as a free people -and are more than willing to sell off MY liberty and MY real rights for any cheap bauble dangled in front of them!
When Obama said unwanted pregnancy was in reality the same thing as a DISEASE and therefore contraceptives fell under "preventative care" should have told you everything we need to know about liberals and liberal mentality. Sorry but unwanted pregnancy isn't a disease -it's a human life. Only a liberal would have the disgusting gall to claim the power to declare an innocent human life as a "disease". That seriously struck me as one of the most evil things he has ever said, giving me a clear insight into the man and his power hungry agenda. Calling birth control a "right" is a ploy to turn around and claim anyone who opposes being forced to foot the bill for contraceptives is in reality trying to violate the rights of others.
But the problem is -you can't uphold the rights of some by violating those of others and ordering people to foot the bill for something that violates their conscience, religious beliefs or morals is violating their rights. Only a liberal would insist the only way to uphold their rights is by violating the rights of others. If YOU want birth control -go get it. But that doesn't put any burden on ME to provide, pay or help you get it! Calling it a "right" doesn't change that and suddenly obligate me to do a ******* thing about it! REAL RIGHTS don't obligate other citizens to forfeit their own for you!
Your real rights do not put an obligation on other individuals to help you exercise them. Liberals are deliberately trying to pervert the very definition of "right" in order to justify the tyranny they ALWAYS end up seeking. If you don't understand what your REAL rights are, don't understand the true value of them, don't understand the Bill of Rights actually intended to take those specific rights off the table of any political debate -then how the hell are you going to notice when they come after your rights? So liberals pretend what is meant by "rights" are things you WANT and you WANT government to GIVE YOU. But government doesn't GIVE you your rights but liberals don't want you dwelling on that as they encourage an entitlement mentality that whatever your little heart fancies becomes a "right". Even if it means violating the TRUE rights of others to get it for you. How do you think a government that ends up turning on its own citizens are able to do it? They start by first claiming a power it did not previously have and uses the LYING ASS PRETENSE it needs that power to protect YOU and YOUR "rights" -a previously unheard of "right" that actually makes other private citizens OBLIGATED to GIVE you it. Your real rights place no obligation on another human being -it places only an obligation on government not to **** WITH IT. As Obama has now done with the Catholic Church -oh, in the lying ass claim others are OBLIGATED to give women birth control as part of THEIR rights -whether others want to or not! What kind of "right" is that where it makes servants out of some citizens in order to indulge the wish list of other ones? ANY clue where this really ends -because history is full of examples in case you really, really don't know. This is ALL part of the very specific leftwing extremist game plan on how to establish power by the deliberate perversion of the definition of "right" to one that protects what YOU do from being persecuted by government for doing it. To one where government persecutes you unless you do as it tells you. Your rights don't come FROM government but leftwing extremists NEED people to desperately believe they do -that government is our MASTER. That government is our SAVIOR.
It is part and parcel of leftwing extremism and leftwing extremists believe tyranny is the best condition for the existence of man. With them doing the tyrannizing of course -oh for your own good, because they know how to run your life better than YOU do -so they claim a "right" to do just that.
Liberals constantly insist it is conservatives who are doing all this "lying" -but consider this: American conservatives believe in a smaller, weaker federal government with power widely disseminated among the states and properly belongs to WE THE PEOPLE who claim the right to CHOOSE the laws by which we CONSENT to be governed. Liberals on the other hand LOVE large, powerful, centralized, massive, expensive government -everything they promote is done for the purpose of giving government more POWER over us all. Liberals believe people cannot be trusted to make good decisions on their own behalf and their ability to make those decisions restricted. Liberals believe THEY know how to run your life better than you, they believe they are smarter, wiser -and therefore have an inherent right to RULE. Notice the concept of "consent" is never part of the liberal agenda -but force and ramming unwanted laws down the throats of the people against their will typically is. It is liberals who favor that because they know THEY are the ones that would be sitting at the top of heap wielding all that power -while conservatives oppose allowing government to gain that kind of power and size no matter who wants to wield that power.
So think about it -who is really most likely to lie here? Those seeking an ever larger and powerful government that can only gain more power by stripping it from YOU and OPENLY use bribery and manipulation to do it? Or those warning you to prevent it now because it is your REAL rights at stake here. Those seeking to expand their power over YOU will ALWAYS be the ones most likely to lie to you while they do it! And they get away with it with the help of people like YOU who start hyperventilating and insisting those who refuse to gladly become state owned slaves and just do whatever they are ordered to do are somehow violating your phony ass "rights" because you WANT whatever new cheap bauble is being promised to you are your "right" by the power hungry leftists. The power hungry know how to bribe their way and THIS is just one more and they will continue doing so until full power has been achieved and then power can be used to eliminate and destroy political opponents. No government can turn on its own citizens until it first has accumulated the power to do so. Conservatives oppose allowing government to do so for ANY reason -while people like you see whatever cheap POS is being used to try and entice you and gladly forfeit your REAL rights to government and then demand I do so as well! Sorry but MINE are not for sale. They need people like YOU to help accomplish THEIR true goal which no matter the current bauble being dangled, it is really ALWAYS about POWER and consolidating THEIR power. At the expense of YOURS. And MINE. And that of my children. They use, exploit and manipulate people kept ignorant about what is really at stake but are convinced to cheerfully sell their own rights for a cheap bauble they urge you to believe it is your "real" right even though it means forcing other private citizens to produce, provide, pay for and help you get it even if they must be forced to do so against their will. Look how many ALREADY believe that unless others are being FORCED to pay for or help you get it, it is YOUR rights being violated when it comes to birth control -but it is not violation of rights of those being forced against their will to provide or pay for it. Wow -the leftwing's control of our public school/political indoctrination centers have really paid off, haven't they? Since when did YOUR real rights involve forcing other private citizens to violate THEIR conscience or religious beliefs? Where is that one in the Constitution honey?
Will it really require YOU being the victim before you finally understand government doesn't GIVE us our rights -government only tries to TAKE more of them AWAY from us so IT can have more power over us all? Where in the Constitution does it say some groups have a "right" to force other PRIVATE CITIZENS to provide them with goods and services AGAINST THEIR WILL? No such right exists -because it isn't a right at all. How is this ANY different from government ordering the Catholic Church or any other organization or private employer to foot the bill for abortion services even though they believe it to be murder or not? Who gets to decide these issues? If you don't know, the Constitution already answered that one. And guess what -it isn't OBAMA.
