U.S. District Court grants preliminary injunction to Tyndale House Publishers...

The Alliance Defending Freedom (formerly the Alliance Defense Fund) just issued a press release announcing the success of its petition for a preliminary injunction suspending the levying of fines against Tyndale House Publishers for refusing to provide its employees the chemical abortions required by Obamacare. Judge Reggie B. Walton of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued the injunction, stating:

(T)he Court finds that the plaintiffs have shown a likelihood of success on the merits of their RFRA (Religious Freedom Restoration Act) claim, and that the remaining preliminary injunction factors weigh in favor of granting the plaintiffs an injunction on the basis of that claim.

What kind of bloodlust permeates the administration of President Barack Obama?

Judge Walton describes the Obama administration's response to Tyndale House Publishers' request for relief of conscience concerning Obamacare's requirement that they pay for the murder of their employees' unborn children as follows:

The defendants concede that the plaintiffs’ religious belief is sincere, but dispute that the contraceptive coverage mandate substantially burdens this religious belief.

So our civil magistrate inside the Beltway denies that forcing a Christian employer to pay for the murder of his employees' children "substantially burdens (his) religious belief."

Brothers and sisters, keep your eye on the ball. Rebels against God's Moral Law always get their nose under the tent with appeals to freedom of choice, but once they are successful on that preliminary level, they turn on the righteous and use force to make them join in the wickedness. Abortion started out as a woman's right and now it's become a Christian's duty... And they have the chutzpah to tell us this duty is no substantial burden on our freedom of religion!

The defendants (Obama administration) point to the deprivation of preventive services to the 260 employees covered by the plaintiffs’ (Tyndale House Publishers') health plan, as well as those employees’ spouses and dependents, as harming the public interest. ...In so arguing, the defendants point to the purpose of the contraceptive coverage mandate, “which is to improve the health of women and children and promote gender equality by equalizing coverage of preventive services for women."

The administration of President Barack Obama declares that murdering unborn children will "improve the health of women and children and promote gender equality."

Responding to this claim, Judge Walton ruled:

However, as discussed above, the defendants have failed to demonstrate a compelling interest in applying the contraceptive coverage mandate to the plaintiffs. They have thus also failed to show the harm to the public that they claim.

Praise God for one judge who won't violate his vow to uphold our United States Constitution for the sake of a bribe. And they tell us Obamacare is constitutional!

Liars they are.

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By the way, note how the defendents and court habitually lie, referring to chemical abortifacients as "contraceptives." Footnote 14 on page 19 attempts to explain this discrepancy: "The plaintiffs use the term 'abortifacients' to refer to the three contraceptives at issue in this case—Plan B, ella, and intrauterine devices—which they state 'cause the demise of an already conceived/fertilized human embryo.' See, e.g., Compl. ¶¶ 59, 75, 81-83.

Comments

Even if it is covered women will still need to pay a co-pay as we do for all prescription medicine. It is not free. So if BC is covered a woman pays 9 dollars or more  per month as opposed to 83 dollars per month if it is not covered. There are others forms of BC other than the pill that are not abortive for both parties to use if they don't want to conceive a child. However for the unmarried abstenence is still the best way to prevent pregnancy. Why is that so hard for people today to comprehend?

Because self-control is a means of stifling, if not out right opposition to, freedom of choice.  Also, I suspect unbelievers intuitively sense that with an inborn desire to dishonour God in any form or fashion, calls on self-control are meaningless.  So, under the guise of freedom of choice, they call on us to allow them to kill their babies and to take away the freedom of those who now, by God's Word and Spirit, have the desire to honour God!

MZ,

You are quite wrong about the HHS mandate. It disallows *any* sort of co-pay or cost sharing from the woman-patient. In addition, it requires coverage of ALL forms of birth control and all brands that are FDA-approved.

Kamilla

I did not realize that it was offered free with no co pay. Yet we will still have to pay co pays for ordinary prescription drugs whether we can afford the co pay or not. Thats wrong.

I'm a bit perplexed by the copay debate.  Such issues had nothing to do with Judge Walton's decision.

Praise God for the Judge, as Tim said.

I liked the freedom/force illustration used.  It is rarely so blatantly presented as in the Obama Infanticide Mandate.  One has to be willfully blind not to see that the "freedom to choose" has morphed into the the "duty to kill."  Unfortunately, many are still so blinded.  It reminds me of reading "Never again" on a monument in Auschwitz at a time when the world was standing passively by while Muslim northern Sudan was massacring the Christians in southern Sudan.

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