Senate Democrats Defile SCOTUS Decision

About 2-weeks ago, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) rendered their decision protecting Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Woods Specialties’ religious freedom.  But, now Senate Democrats are trying to reverse this ruling with a new act that would override an employer exemption from the controversial U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate.

 

Senate Democrats want to change the Religious Freedom and Restoration Act in a way that would force companies to pay for birth control, contraception and those abortion-causing drugs.  Senators Mark Udall (D-CO) and Patty Murray (D-WA), both abortion advocates, are behind the new legislation and they said, “The Protect Women’s Health from Corporate Interference Act would ban employers from refusing to provide health coverage — including contraceptive coverage — guaranteed to their employees and dependents under federal law.”

 

“With this bill, Congress can begin to fix the damage done by the Supreme Court’s decision to allow for-profit corporations to deny their employees birth control coverage.  The Supreme Court last week opened the door to a wide range of discrimination and denial of services.  This bill would help close the door for denying contraception before more corporations can walk through it,” said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund.

 

Planned Parenthood seems to ignore the fact that a majority of Americans agreed with the Court’s decision.  51% of respondents in a Rasmussen Reports survey said employers should not be required to provide insurance with this type of coverage.

 

But, that’s not going to stop these Democratic senators, who are determined to override the SCOTUS decision in the name of “women’s rights.”  In other words, under the guise of ‘women’s rights’ these Democrats will disrespect our nation’s established governance by ‘balance of power’ and disregard our system of ‘co-equal branches of government’ and deny business owners the right to consistently exercise their ‘religious freedom’ in all aspects of life … for the sake of birth control?!   

 

Let me say: Anyone who up for re-election and puts their name to this legislation deserves to lose their seat this fall.  Hopefully voters will err on the side of our established form of government and individual rights … verses what comes down to one more so-called claim of the nanny state.

 

Rev. Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.

Chaplain (Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army

Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel