Obama Care is perhaps the most contentious issue in American Politics I have experienced as an adult. Certainly everyone has strong opinions about it. I know I do.
So it's at the Supreme Court, and the rhetoric is intense. I noticed, for one thing, that the coverage of the issue from the BBC was more balanced than from the American networks. They at least showed footage of people demonstrating against it. The Network news I watched last night didn't, and mentioned the Anti-Obama Care crowd as being "small". Really, it's pathetic when the American news industry has become so partisan that I have to go to the Brits to find more balanced coverage.
I am implacably opposed to Obama Care. I do not one dollar of every insurance premium I will be forced to pay to go to abortion. I do not want my insurance to be used to pay for hormonal and surgical birth control. I do not like the Government of the United States using the Department of Health and Human Services to create regulations forcing my Faith community to fund immoral, abhorrent and murderous practices.
But I don't want the Court to take any notice of this. There are larger issues than my desires, that as a patriotic American I feel must be addressed.
Chief among them is the idea that the Government is as bound by law as the citizens. I'm sick of "activist" judicial decisions. I want the decision to be based in law, not my preference. Judicial activism is wrong, even if I get my way because of it. I hope and pray that the Justices will decide this issue on law, and law alone. There are constitutional issues involved here, concerning the limits of Congressional power under the interstate commerce clause, and other embedded issues, which should be decided in separate cases concerning freedom of religion, and the exercise of religion in daily life. The issues of freedom of religion would more appropriately be decided in a separate case--not this one.
We need to remember that they system of checks and balances, and separation of powers is menat not just to protect the people from the government, but the law from the people, so that we are not able to use law to oppress others, or favor groups over one another. Now is the time for us to pray, and to pray that the system of law is upheld. For if we dissolve our constitution by judicial action, we place ourselves, and our Republic, in the same position as the Weimar Republic after 1927, when they abandoned constitutional rule except as a fiction.
Now is a time to pray for our Republic, and for our Supreme Court Justices, that this issue be decided not by polemic or partisan activism, but by law, and law alone. If it isn't, then one more block in our edifice of liberty will be chipped away.
St. Thomas Moore, Pray for us.
So it's at the Supreme Court, and the rhetoric is intense. I noticed, for one thing, that the coverage of the issue from the BBC was more balanced than from the American networks. They at least showed footage of people demonstrating against it. The Network news I watched last night didn't, and mentioned the Anti-Obama Care crowd as being "small". Really, it's pathetic when the American news industry has become so partisan that I have to go to the Brits to find more balanced coverage.
I am implacably opposed to Obama Care. I do not one dollar of every insurance premium I will be forced to pay to go to abortion. I do not want my insurance to be used to pay for hormonal and surgical birth control. I do not like the Government of the United States using the Department of Health and Human Services to create regulations forcing my Faith community to fund immoral, abhorrent and murderous practices.
But I don't want the Court to take any notice of this. There are larger issues than my desires, that as a patriotic American I feel must be addressed.
Chief among them is the idea that the Government is as bound by law as the citizens. I'm sick of "activist" judicial decisions. I want the decision to be based in law, not my preference. Judicial activism is wrong, even if I get my way because of it. I hope and pray that the Justices will decide this issue on law, and law alone. There are constitutional issues involved here, concerning the limits of Congressional power under the interstate commerce clause, and other embedded issues, which should be decided in separate cases concerning freedom of religion, and the exercise of religion in daily life. The issues of freedom of religion would more appropriately be decided in a separate case--not this one.
We need to remember that they system of checks and balances, and separation of powers is menat not just to protect the people from the government, but the law from the people, so that we are not able to use law to oppress others, or favor groups over one another. Now is the time for us to pray, and to pray that the system of law is upheld. For if we dissolve our constitution by judicial action, we place ourselves, and our Republic, in the same position as the Weimar Republic after 1927, when they abandoned constitutional rule except as a fiction.
Now is a time to pray for our Republic, and for our Supreme Court Justices, that this issue be decided not by polemic or partisan activism, but by law, and law alone. If it isn't, then one more block in our edifice of liberty will be chipped away.
St. Thomas Moore, Pray for us.
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