Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…
BLAM! Here’s what Obama said in a proclamation concerning the National Day of Prayer:
“All of us have the freedom to pray and exercise our faiths openly,” Obama said. “Our laws protect these God-given liberties, and rightly so. Today and every day, prayers will be offered in houses of worship, at community gatherings, in our homes, and in neighborhoods all across our country. Let us give thanks for the freedom to practice our faith as we see fit, whether individually or in fellowship.
Really? All I have been hearing from him is a bastardization of the actual wording of the First Amendment: “freedom to worship” instead of the proper wording of “or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” (as in “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;”). He said that phrase often, freedom to worship, in trying to force those of faith into a tiny box when it came to HHS Secretary Sebelius ruling that ALL Obamacare insurance policies must be obeyed – no religious exceptions except for those who actually work in a “house of worship”. Does your church, synagogue, or other religious group have an “external” ministry?
Sidenote: can we please stop calling it “health insurance”? What it really is now is just a healthcare payment system – there is no risk so there is no sense of traditional insurance at play here.
Too bad – Obama has decided, from On High, that he has the power and the authority to arbitrarily decide who is religious and “worthy” to be given an HHS exception to the contraceptive and abortifacient to be provided by all new Obamacare mandated healthcare payment insurance policies – or not.
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