Fellow conservative,
Do you think Congress should be exempt from Obamacare?
Do you think they should be able to keep their current insurance and not have to live under the massive health care law they passed without the country’s support?
That’s exactly what a ruling from the Obama administration will let them do.
When the law was passed, an amendment was added specifically requiring that Congress would have to live under the law and get their insurance from these new “exchanges”. At the time, adding that amendment was the only way they could get the votes to pass it.
Now they don’t want to live under it.
Many members of Congress quietly lobbied Obama to give them a waiver from having to comply with the law. They said it would lead to a “brain drain” of congressmen and staffers if they he didn’t!
Even the labor unions – led by the AFL-CIO – who campaigned FOR Obamacare are now asking for exemptions and waivers.
Let your members of Congress know that you don’t support ANY changes or waivers from this law – unless it’s a “waiver” that involves repealing or de-funding the whole mess!
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More Intrusion in Our Private Lives
Are you ready for your doctor to ask questions about your sex life and share the answers with the government?
That’s what Obamacare pushes doctors to do.
According to one recent report: “The president’s “reforms” aim to turn doctors into government agents, pressuring them financially to ask questions they consider inappropriate and unnecessary, and to violate their Hippocratic Oath to keep patients’ records confidential.”
Public opinion CONTINUES to build AGAINST it.
In the latest USA Today poll, Opposition to Obamacare has reached an all-time high of 53%. Another poll shows only half the country even realizes that they will have to comply with the insurance mandate – and that’s less than two weeks before it goes into effect.
Opposition will increase as more people understand what is happening. And that’s why we need to ramp up the pressure on Congress.
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More Job Losses and Higher Prices
More companies are being forced to cut employees below 30 hours per week in order to avoid the law’s insurance mandates, or even dropping health insurance benefits all together – a process that will only increase once the law goes into full-effect.
Many existing plans are getting cancelled, because they don’t meet Obamacare’s “minimum requirements”…which means Obama’s “if you like your plan, you can keep it” promise was a lie.
And the premiums for new plans that do qualify are sky-rocketing.
Have you had enough? Let Congress hear from you.
Tell Them to DE-FUND and REPEAL Obamacare
The upcoming fights over the budget and the debt limit offer an opportunity for Congress to either DE-FUND Obamacare or DELAY it until after the next elections – when we can try to get rid of it again.
The bottom line is that we need to keep up the pressure to make changes NOW!
Say “NO” to Obamacare waivers for Congress and unions.
Say “NO” to giving the government your private medical records.
And say “YES” to ending Obamacare.
Click here to join the campaign right now! And don’t forget, you can click here and send a blast fax to ANY or ALL members of Congress at one time. Or you can click here for their individual contact information.
Let them hear from you today!
Sincerely,
Drew McKissick
Culture war becoming a war over religious liberty
When liberals talk about opposing the “legislating of morality”, what they really mean is that they oppose policies that are supported by people whose morality is based on religious beliefs – and that they want to force everyone else to comply with their own secular based version of morality.
And since fewer liberals believe in God anyway, destroying religious liberty isn’t something they worry about.
In the wake of new gay marriage laws we’ve seen Christian photographers, Christian bakers and Christian owned venues sued for refusing to provide services to same-sex weddings. We’re now seeing lawsuits against states that don’t recognize gay marriage by homosexuals who have been “married” in other states.
We’ve seen Catholic adoption agencies run out of business for refusing to violate their faith and place children with homosexual couples; and seen a Christian school get sued for expelling two students that were involved in a lesbian relationship on the grounds of its religious views.
In San Diego a fertility doctor was sued for refusing to artificially inseminate an unmarried lesbian because of his beliefs. Meanwhile, the state of California is considering legislation mandating insurance coverage for gay and lesbian “infertility”, (yes, you read that right).
In the area of healthcare, the government is trying to force religious institutions to pay for insurance coverage that includes not just birth control, but drugs that are designed to induce abortions.
As one Catholic Bishop put it, the state is trying to use the “rule of law to force a church institution, in violation of its own self-identify and constitution, to pay for something in its own workplace that the institution holds and teaches to be sinful.”
To paraphrase another church official, does the state have the right to tell citizens how to practice their religion? Many liberals would emphatically answer “yes”.
According to the Obama administration, once you start a business you don’t have First Amendment rights anymore. In its response to Hobby Lobby’s lawsuit against Obamacare’s abortion coverage mandates, the administration wrote: “Hobby Lobby is a for-profit, secular employer…and a secular entity by definition does not exercise religion.” Got that?
In our military, the Air Force censored a video created by a chaplain simply because it included the word “God”; another chaplain was removed for not allowing a military chapel to be used for a same-sex wedding; and another service member received a potentially career ending reprimand for expressing his religious beliefs about homosexuality on a personal religious blog.
Senior officials at Fort Campbell sent out emails informing the ranks that “the religious right in America” is a “domestic hate group” because of its opposition to homosexuality. And this is the same military that recently produced training materials that lumped Tea Party supporters in with terrorists.
As instances like these came to light, a Republican US House member introduced an amendment to a military funding bill that would have “required the Armed Forces to accommodate actions and speech reflecting the conscience, moral, principles or religious beliefs” of service members.
The Obama administration “strongly objected”.
Add all of this to the recent Supreme Court decision on gay marriage in California which, as Justice Scalia put it in his dissent, formally declared “anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency” and that “any resistance to its holding is beyond the pale of reasoned disagreement”.
That’s par for the course. The diversity and tolerance crowd doesn’t give a rip about diversity of thought or tolerate values that are different from their own, (such as they have them).
Gay marriage is the biggest weapon in this war simply because refusal to accommodate or sanction it can potentially leave you open to massive lawsuits in the conduct of normal business.
As former US Senator Sam Brownback put it, “…in states with same-sex marriage, religiously affiliated schools, adoption agencies, psychological clinics, social workers, marital counselors, etc. will be forced to choose between violating their own deeply held beliefs and giving up government contracts, tax-exempt status, or even being denied the right to operate at all.”
In short, the active practice of one’s faith in everyday life would no longer be legal.
These are the kind of problems you run into when government becomes so large that it covers virtually every type of human interaction. Inevitably it crosses the line from the secular to the realm of religious conscience.
All of which is kind of ironic for a country created by people looking for religious liberty.