Yet another battle in the Democrat's war against Christianity. article text:
Churches across California have been battling the onerous abortion mandate for years with no relief. The troubling situation began in 2014 when the California Department of Managed Health Care reclassified abortion as a “basic health service” under the Affordable Care Act and ordered all insurance plans in the state to begin covering elective abortions immediately. Even churches are not exempt.
A federal district court ruled Thursday that a California mandate that forces churches to pay for elective abortions in their health insurance plans is unconstitutional. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing Foothill Church in Glendora, Calvary Chapel Chino Hills in Chino, and The Shepherd of the Hills Church in Porter Ranch filed a motion in April asking the court to definitively rule in their favor and allow the churches to operate according to their religious beliefs, which uphold the sanctity of unborn lives.
“In sum, the Director has not shown ‘[she] lacks other means of achieving [her] desired goal without imposing a substantial burden on the exercise of religion by [plaintiffs],’” the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, Sacramento Division, wrote in its opinion in Foothill Church v. Watanabe. “The Director’s denial of the Churches’ request for exceptions to accommodate their religious beliefs, based solely on the fact that those requests did not originate with a plan, was not narrowly tailored to serve a compelling interest.”
As revealed in e-mails that ADF attorneys discovered, the California Department of Managed Health Care issued its mandate in response to specific demands from Planned Parenthood. Those demands asked agency officials to implement a “fix” requiring the health plans of religious organizations to include coverage for abortion, regardless of moral or conscientious objections and despite state recognition up to that point that religious groups shouldn’t be subject to such requirements.
In 2014, ADF and Life Legal Defense Foundation filed formal complaints with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services against DMHC regarding California’s mandate and its violation of federal conscience law. Those came on the heels of a complaint filed directly with DMHC, which responded by affirming its decision to force all plans to cover all abortions without explanation. The Obama administration did investigate California’s abortion mandate, but its HHS Office of Civil Rights concluded that it found no violation of the law.
Well of course they are only at war with Christians, they are the foundation of what shaped America but more importantly they aren't violent.
The Muslims would be doing trucks of peace quick, scientology has something equally terrifying, lawyers on speed dial and the Jewish have too many links to big money. So they can only attack the religion of the working class..... for now..
California is full of demons anyway
Forcing anyone to fund anything is bullshit.
It's pretty fucked up how the commie, judeo-left keeps trying to push laws like this, but they keep getting struck down. But then they try again. That fails, and they try again.
This process has bee going on since this nation was a nation. Slow creep to communism.
We really needed a constitutional amendment that states: "government officials that have a law/rule overturned at the federal level will be removed from office, jailed for no less than five years, and forbidden from ever serving in government ever again."
Just basing it on a judge's decision in a lawsuit gives the judiciary way too much power. I agree with the principle that the government and politicians should be held responsible for trying to violate our rights (and not in the fake democratic mantra "the voters will punish them") but it's everyone's responsibility to uphold the constitution. Maybe just make it an impeachable offense.