After a denied emergency appeal by Justice Sonya Sotomayor, Hobby Lobby now faces a daily fine of $1.3 million beginning on Jan 1 unless they begin paying for contraceptive insurance coverage for their employees that include abortifacients, something they feel violates their First Amendment rights:

REUTERS – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has refused to block enforcement starting next week of a requirement in President Barack Obama’s 2010 healthcare overhaul that some companies provide insurance coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices.

Sotomayor, who hears emergency appeals from the 10th Circuit, said it was not “indisputably clear” that Hobby Lobby and Mardel deserved an injunction, noting that lower courts have been divided in similar cases on whether temporary relief is proper.

“Even without an injunction pending appeal, the applicants may continue their challenge to the regulations in the lower courts,” and following a final judgment ask the Supreme Court at that time to consider their appeal, she said.

Sotomayor did not rule on the merits of the companies’ religious-based claims.

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I gotta say this really ticks me off. Because of Obamacare being forced down our throats, the owners of Hobby Lobby now face violating their religious beliefs, suffering under a penalty that will surely kill the business, or just closing the business down themselves and firing some 50,000 employees – all because our dictator-in-chief feels that contraception should be provided by employers in health insurance. No, it’s not good enough to let employees pay for it themselves if they want to add it to their policy. No, he wants employers to pay for it.

Ugh. I really don’t like feeling this way about my president.




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Jennifer Carver Touchton
Jennifer Carver Touchton

It's not up to employers to decide our health care rights. Just because they don't agree with contraceptives due to their religious beliefs, does not make it okay to deny coverage to employees. Not everyone shares the same religious convictions.

Bob Macchia
Bob Macchia

What else can we expect from an Obama appointee?

hongryhawg
hongryhawg

He's not your president. He's nobody's president. Just because he lives in our White House and smokes crack in the Oval Office does not make him a president. He is an occupant, put in place by fraudulent means to cause as much destruction to this previously great nation as he possibly can while EVERYBODY is in the mood to break their oaths of office.

General Lee
General Lee

Where in the hell does the left find these Toadwart women? How can so many ugly, repulsive women possibly exist on the left? People call Michelle Obama "beautiful" and all I see is Chewbacca. No, I'm not being "insensitive" or "racist"...Hilary is a skank, Sotomayor and Kagan are both freaks of nature as is Napolitano. And furthermore, they're all sexist, femi-nazi's. There is truly nothing more dangerous or threatening to the freedom of the common man than a bull-dyke, liberal woman in power.

Jeff Smith
Jeff Smith

Impeach the miscarriage of "Justice" Sotomayer! Hell, while we're at it, remove all the so-called "justices" and replace them with independent-thinking Constitutional scholars that have the kahunas to tell the guy that occupies the White House "no"!

white531
white531

This is what happens, when we allow the Liberals to load the Supreme Court and then make it part of the Executive.

Sotomayor and Kagan are simply repulsive human beings, who happen to be on the Supreme Court. Just like Obama, also a repulsive human being, happens to be our President.

dcnj
dcnj

All is lost...let it burn. We can't fix this. The government is now only serving themselves and their "friends".

IT has to hit rock bottom..unfortunately. This country is already split in two.

Immigration, rigged elections, lifetime politicians etc etc etc.

57thunderbird
57thunderbird

Enough is enough.Justices can be impeached just like presidents.

syvyn11
syvyn11

Close it down. Send Obama a message.

Obama being the weasel (which is a insult to weasels) that he is, he'll blame Republicans and people's faith. Let him. It will make him look like a idiot.

At some point, the MSM won't be able to mask the evil that is within this man's heart.

bmark
bmark

drop the insurance benefit and just add that money to their check making the employee responsible themselves. This leaves them no choice

sarahsupporter
sarahsupporter

If there were any ever doubt that Obama has been destroying our country, and our private sector on purpose, this story here should remove all doubt once and for all. This makes me sick. All because he "feels"????? Really? He feels employers should pay and that's that huh?

Sober_Thinking
Sober_Thinking

He's NOT a President!!!

Their first mistake was going to Sotomayor... she's liberal freak... sooo...

This is unconscionable. How many businesses will chose to honor God and NOT this dictator? How many people will lose their jobs over this.

God will deal with these people. Harshly. Forced murder of innocents... by our own government. Sin is rampant in America now...

sjmom
sjmom

I don't know what Hobby Lobby will do but I know what I would do. Before I would bow my knee to the demoniac in charge I would close the doors of the business. May God's wisdom be upon the owners of this company to lead them in future decisions. Amen.

proudhispanicconservative
proudhispanicconservative

All of this because that weasel Roberts found a way to make this Monstrosity that is Obama care constitutional, and Soto Mayor is just following the script from these statists. Judge Roberts is the most hateful person in power for all of us that love the Constitution, and love freedom. One of the many legacies that the Bush clan left the United States, Judge Roberts was picked by......... You guessed it a Bush.

M_J_S
M_J_S

No.....this business should stay open and refuse to pay the fine....lets get the image of government agents dragging out the owners and shutting the place down.

Orangeone
Orangeone

Better to close and file bankruptcy. If the gov't seizes the owners lose everything and are still liable to pay the debts.

Wolfie
Wolfie

If Liberals want these items, why don't they take a bit of personal responsibility and buy their own? Why are they imposing their freakishly anti-Constitutional twisted views upon us all?

TWH's R#1
TWH's R#1

Because they are insane regressive commiecrats that are unstoppable control freaks that NEVER admit they are wrong and NEVER quit pushing. There is only one solution.

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

It's called "Fundamental Transformation", Wolfie.

Wolfie
Wolfie

Thank God we have GOD! He will save us from this devil invented discord! :-)

Wolfie
Wolfie

We are playing our part! :-)

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

God helps those who help themselves, my brother. He never meant us to sit around and wait for 'Devine Intervention'. He urged us to recognize evil and denounce it, personally.

clockwindingdown
clockwindingdown

Wolfie, kind of ironic isn't it that the people that want religion taken out of public eye want the public to pay for their lack religious morals…

Leftism is about no responsibility, no accountability, someone else's fault. It is plain to see in every one of their causes, someone else is always to blame. Sounds like someone we all are exposed too doesn't it?

Conniption Fitz
Conniption Fitz

Right. "You play, you pay" should be the reply to these libertines who want to live high-risk lifestyles and demand everyone agree with them and pay for the consequences of their actions.

Orangeone
Orangeone

If we sterilize them, problem solved. Permanent birth control.

AmericanborninCanada
AmericanborninCanada

Wolfie, you know the answer to that one.

Wolfie
Wolfie

It was rhetorical, but it felt good to type it out! :-)

Venting = good

balling it all up inside = not so much.

AmericanborninCanada
AmericanborninCanada

lol. It's hard not to get so many when we have such silly conversations here. :-)

Wolfie
Wolfie

And every one a gem! I'm not far behind you with 13,233 as of this post. I can't believe I made that many comments either! Yikes!

AmericanborninCanada
AmericanborninCanada

"It felt good to type it out." You just explained why I went over 15,000 comments last night lol.

I can't hold stuff in very well.

Conniption Fitz
Conniption Fitz

This is religious persecution.

Support Hobby Lobby. Buy their merchandise.

Write and ask the ACLJ to take up their cause...and donate to the ACLJ if they do.

Make posters and organize groups to go to the capital...or stand in front of Hobby Lobby.

Write your legislators.

Sexual promiscuity and abortion are not human rights.

These drugs are dangerous. Abortion and the morning after pills are correlated with negative outcomes such as infection, death, cancers and long term mental health issues.

clockwindingdown
clockwindingdown

Isn't it funny how O's SCOTUS appointee is the judge enforcing his will? This is what happens when open communist corrupt our legal system and take over our elected offices.

This is not the will of the people. The will of the people in all polls clearly shows the citizenry does not want obamacare. Yet here they come to take control of property rights, that is correct, property rights. This is an independent company, which O and co didn't build. They are forcing private individuals to capitulate there beliefs, their "freedom of religion" to O and co's will or face prosecution.

IF the employees do not like the employment agreement they have with H/L they are free to seek employment else where. Yet the employer is not free to exercise, through what they have created and represents their life force, the values and morals that they believe and represents them.

It is time that we the people file class action suits against this kind of tyranny.

Why is there not a petition on the white website to repeal obamacare?

Why have not thousands of independent small business joined H/L in this fight for freedom against these tyrants?

Why is it that we, the citizenry have not caused our government to fear us, rather we fear them. They are supposed to represent us, instead they rule over us with disregard to our republic, its laws and safety nets.

O'care is the game changer. It infects everything in our lives. It was designed to seize control of business, economy and regulate everything we are and do. Remember this law is still being written, with no oversight, changed as needed to take greater control. For those that don not think so I ask you this. What was the purpose we were told healthcare needed to be enacted? Was it not to cover those without healthcare? Does it fill the need? No! It still leaves most of the number it was meant to cover without coverage. So it failed at it is "supposed" intent, yet they continue on with it never addressing this issue!

At what point to do we the people draw a line in the sand and say no more???

joe brown
joe brown

VIOLATION OF THE FREE EXERCISE CLAUSE OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT

1. Providing forcing Bible beliveing Christians who believe and hold good faith scriptually based tenants that life and soul occur at conception and who believe aboortion inducing drugs are absolutely contrary to their faith.

2. It is an unconsitutional invasion of the freedom of relegion to force the members of this class to use their money to purchase an insurance policy that has as one of its objectives to terminate a fertilized egg which at that momment has a soul.

2. The Obamacare law flagrantly violates the 1st Amendment Free Exercise of religion clause clause by falsely seeking to force the Free Exercise into a box confined by the four (4) walls of a church building.

3. First Amendment forbids Federal or state govern ment to interfere with free exercise of religion.

REQUEST FOR CLASS ACTION CERTIFICATION AND FOR CERTIFICATION OF John Doe AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF A CLASS

1. Class certification and a certification of a class representative herein is requested. John Doe is alleging that he is a member of a class of U. S. citizens, who are Bible beliveing Christians who believe and hold good faith scriptually based tenants that life and soul occur at conception and who believe abortion inducing drugs are absolutely contrary to their faith who asserts it is an unconsitutional invasion of the freedom of relegion to force him and the members of this class to use their money to purchase an insurance policy that has as one of its objectives to terminate a fertilized egg which at that momment has a soul.

2. This action can be maintained as a class action under FRCP Rule 23, which states as follow :

(a) Prerequisites. One or more members of a class may sue or be sued as representative parties on behalf of all members only if:

(1) the class is so numerous that joinder of all members is impracticable;

(2) there are questions of law or fact common to the class;

(3) the claims or defenses of the representative parties are typical of the claims or defenses of the class; and

(4) the representative parties will fairly and adequately protect the interests of the class.

(b) Types of Class Actions. A class action may be maintained if Rule 23(a) is satisfied and if:

(1) prosecuting separate actions by or against individual class members would create a risk of:

(A) inconsistent or varying adjudications with respect to individual class members that would establish incompatible standards of conduct for the party opposing the class; or

(B) adjudications with respect to individual class members that, as a practical matter, would be dispositive of the interests of the other members not parties to the individual adjudications or would substantially impair or impede their ability to protect their interests;

(2) the party opposing the class has acted or refused to act on grounds that apply generally to the class, so that final injunctive relief or corresponding declaratory relief is appropriate respecting the class as a whole; or

(3) the court finds that the questions of law or fact common to class members predominate over any questions affecting only individual members, and that a class action is superior to other available methods for fairly and efficiently adjudicating the controversy. The matters pertinent to these findings include:

(A) the class members’ interests in individually controlling the prosecution or defense of separate actions;

(B) the extent and nature of any litigation concerning the controversy already begun by or against class members;

(C) the desirability or undesirability of concentrating the litigation of the claims in the particular forum; and

(D) the likely difficulties in managing a class action.

The members of the class are so numerous that it is impossible and impracticable to bring all of them to this court as named plaintiffs. John Doe is similar to damage of other class members

Not certifying this legal action as a class action can lead to conflicting rulings and judgments; there are questions of law or fact common to the class. the claims or defenses of the representative parties are typical of the claims or defenses of the class; and

John Doe will fairly and adequately protect the interests of the class.

clockwindingdown
clockwindingdown

Excellent Joe Brown, now we need to get people to sign! If a majority of the people that oppose the bill would sign such a document it would be powerful!

How does one proceed?

joe brown
joe brown

You get an employee that is being forced to buy a policy the premiums for which he/she pays underwrite the policy as a whole who is willing to serve as a class representative (meaning the initial plaintiff) in the class action. It is critical that this action be filed immediately. They are picking the opposition off one-by-one. It is patently absurd to confine one's freedom of religion to institutions and within the 4 wall of places of worship. They want to wall us off. They can't and they won't, if we move quickly.

Kilauea50
Kilauea50

Justice Roberts is the one that needs his teeth knocked down his throat. He could have put an end to every bit of this mess but he caved to the thug in the White House. It just angers me to no end. Our freedom is GONE

Orangeone
Orangeone

Barky Boy has something on Roberts, we just don't know what that is yet.

warpmine
warpmine

@TRS: Check with Hillary to see if it's ok to disagree so strongly with this regime that you are allowed to have these feelings.

When the population has just effectively signed off on a dictatorship what course other than violent or armed revolt is there left? Face it if a PoS like Piers Morgan can bad mouth the constitution than fomenting revolt should be perfectly fine for the rest of us. To put it another way, if the other side is hell bent on violating the Constitution to the point of making it irrelevant than why my good man should we follow their rules or any rules. Murder, rape, pillage literally have no meaning anymore as the laws governing against it were all based upon the aforementioned Constitution consequently based upon God's Ten Commandments.

The left has argued for rewriting the Constitution and so the people must give their blessings for it somehow but in the mean time the basics for the laws are mute because they desired them so. Have fun, kill the enemy because there isn't any factual basis (their wish) for the regime's law. We now have the formula for anarchy.

Orangeone
Orangeone

Next the rape victim will be charged with a crime for not being on birth control when she was raped.

Conniption Fitz
Conniption Fitz

Both the morning after pills and abortion have been highly correlated with very negative outcomes, like death, breast cancer, etc. but these progressives don't let mere truth and evidence and human life get in the way of their ideology and agenda.

crosshr
crosshr

this regime do not care for truth ! they don't mind retardation, sandra fluk for one !

Orangeone
Orangeone

You might be missing the point. The Barky Boy regime have ZERO respect for women. If women die, all the better.