'The Blunt amendment… would “ensure that health care stakeholders retain the right to provide, purchase, or enroll in health coverage that is consistent with their religious beliefs and moral convictions” under the Affordable Care Act'.
From : http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_02/nothing_to_see_here_folks_this035365.php
'Religious beliefs and moral convictions'.
Were some of us absent the day we learned about the First Amnedment to the Constitution?
'Amendment I'
'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances'.
If we pass a law to 'ensure that health care stakeholders retain the right to provide, purchase, or enroll in health coverage that is consistent with their religious beliefs' then we are in effect passing a law that establishes religious beliefs into practice.
Is the 'belief' seperate from the religion?
Article 6 - 'The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States'.
If we start down this road, then we are establishing a religious test supported by the laws of the United States.
Aren't we making the Founding Fathers so happy?
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