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Hissyspit

(45,788 posts)
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 11:39 AM Dec 2013

U.S. Justices Decline to Hear Another Obamacare Challenge (Liberty University)

Source: Reuters

U.S. justices decline to hear another Obamacare challenge

By Lawrence Hurley

Mon Dec 2, 2013 10:03am EST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a broad new legal challenge to President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare law.

The court rejected a petition filed by Liberty University, a Christian college in Virginia, which had raised various objections to the law, including to the key provision that requires individuals to obtain health insurance.

The justices upheld the constitutionality of a the individual mandate in a 5-4 ruling in June 2012.

Last week, the court agreed to hear two new cases in which employers have made religious objections to regulations implemented under Obamacare that require employers to provide health insurance that includes contraception for women. The case will be heard this term and decided by the end of June.



Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE9B10II20131202

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U.S. Justices Decline to Hear Another Obamacare Challenge (Liberty University) (Original Post) Hissyspit Dec 2013 OP
When are Christian Scientists... TreasonousBastard Dec 2013 #1
The 'logic' of that argument elleng Dec 2013 #3
Could be, but... TreasonousBastard Dec 2013 #4
Or they will pretend to be faith-healers riqster Dec 2013 #12
I drove right through Liberty yesterday on 460 underpants Dec 2013 #2
There's another thread floating around about unemployed college grads... TreasonousBastard Dec 2013 #5
Well if they stay in Lynchburg probably not many underpants Dec 2013 #7
This is burning the candle at both ends. JimboBillyBubbaBob Dec 2013 #6
LOL SoapBox Dec 2013 #8
They turned the case down for obvious reasons bigdarryl Dec 2013 #9
Meh! Jerry Falwell's so-called university. longship Dec 2013 #10
Reuters grammar check? PatrynXX Dec 2013 #11
This is part of the New Way to get rid of Obamacare jmowreader Dec 2013 #13

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
1. When are Christian Scientists...
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 11:50 AM
Dec 2013

Jehovah's Witnesses and others going to band together and complain about healthcare coverage being required at all?

The Watchtower covering its employees for transfusions? That's a lot worse than contraception, isn't it?

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
4. Could be, but...
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 12:01 PM
Dec 2013

you never know.

I suspect that should the argument ever be made it wouldn't fail because of flawed logic but because the more cultish sects just aren't all that popular. The Court might hesitate at offending vast numbers of Catholics and fundie Protestants, but have no fear of offending the few Christian Scientists among us.

underpants

(182,824 posts)
2. I drove right through Liberty yesterday on 460
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 11:53 AM
Dec 2013

They have ski slope now and a golden domed building (admin I am guessing) high atop a hill overlooking the expanding campus.

I commented to my wife, "what is tailgating like at their football games?....'hey can I have some more Kool Aid?"

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
5. There's another thread floating around about unemployed college grads...
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 12:02 PM
Dec 2013

a problem we've known about for years, but what we don't know is how many are from Liberty U?

underpants

(182,824 posts)
7. Well if they stay in Lynchburg probably not many
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 12:16 PM
Dec 2013

Thomas Road Baptist is its own little economy- if you are buying a car or insurance for example you buy from a church member, if you don't they know about it and let you know that they know. Likewise they hire other members kids.

JimboBillyBubbaBob

(1,389 posts)
6. This is burning the candle at both ends.
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 12:07 PM
Dec 2013

These boobs at Liberty are among the upper levels when using the monies provided by guaranteed federal student loans, yet they purport a challenge to the health care law. Chalk up another for the "Pulpit Pimps," as I read from another poster. Pulpit Pimps, can't get over it, sums it all up!

 

bigdarryl

(13,190 posts)
9. They turned the case down for obvious reasons
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 12:25 PM
Dec 2013

The mandate was upheld already.Funny how theres right wing idiots want to try and get the Court to reverse there ruling

longship

(40,416 posts)
10. Meh! Jerry Falwell's so-called university.
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 12:46 PM
Dec 2013
If Jerry Falwell had an enema he could have been buried in a matchbox.

Christopher Hitchens

PatrynXX

(5,668 posts)
11. Reuters grammar check?
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 02:02 PM
Dec 2013

smh




The justices upheld the constitutionality of a the individual mandate in a 5-4 ruling in June 2012.


hello editor? constitutionality of a the individual.... wait what?

jmowreader

(50,559 posts)
13. This is part of the New Way to get rid of Obamacare
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 03:40 PM
Dec 2013

Since repeal through Congress didn't work, they're using a two-pronged strategy.

Prong 1: attempt repeal through the courts. The goal is the same as controlled demolition: knock out enough of the essential elements making the structure work, and it will collapse. This one is different: they attempted to have the Supreme Court reverse the entire Obamacare ruling.

Prong 2: dissuade enrollment to the extent the system never gains economic viability and is cancelled because we're not getting our money's worth. The same thing could be said about the F-35 and they could pay for Obamacare a long time by reducing the F-35 budget by two planes...but as we all know, the Bible has nothing about healing the sick and lots about sending Air Force officers out to die in planes you can't see out the back of. This is the source of the don't-sign-up parties, Creepy Uncle Sam ads, news stories focusing on how bad the website is...

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