Washington Times
December 3, 2013
Obamacare has always included the agenda of sex-without-consequences. It was behind the original push for free birth control. It shows prominently in Colorado’s Obamacare ad campaigns promoting casual sex. It was reflected in speeches by the President: Free birth control without even a co-pay. Morning-after pills for those who didn’t use protection.
Even more liberating, Obamacare shifts responsibility away from both partners and onto somebody else: your boss. If an employer like Hobby Lobby doesn’t liberate you by providing contraception, they must be pilloried and fined over a million dollars each day.
President Barack Obama tries to cloak his contraceptive mandate in asexual clinical language, but he has always been in major political alliance with the movements spawned from the sexual revolution of the 1960’s. The sexual liberation agenda has always been in conflict with religion and traditional values.
It is not an isolated event that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the Hobby Lobby case and sister cases on Obamacare’s mandate for employer-provided contraception and abortifacents. It is part of the war against religion launched as part of that sexual liberation agenda. The conflict that includes Hobby Lobby is explained by a statement attributed to an Obama appointee, Chai Feldblum: When sexual liberty comes into conflict with religious rights, sexual liberty wins.
Feldblum is a Georgetown University law professor and a lesbian. She was appointed by Obama to the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission). Through Feldblum’s efforts, the EEOC is seeking to advance that sexual liberty agenda aggressively. Obamacare is a separate beachhead but part of the same campaign.
It requires creative lawyering to undermine the explicit Constitutional right of religious freedom and supplant it with sexual rights that are nowhere mentioned in the Constitution. Part of that legal fight is lawsuits brought by Catholic institutions, including the University of Notre Dame, against Obamacare’s overall contraceptive mandate. But those lawsuits have not yet reached the Supreme Court.
Three Obamacare cases are now before the Court, however. Among the issues raised, it’s the abortifacents that are the sticking point for the owners of Hobby Lobby, David and Barbara Green and their family.
I’ve known the Greens for years as I represented Oklahoma City in Congress. Media accounts are on-target when they say that the Greens run Hobby Lobby on Christian principles and that they built it from a tiny operation to a major national chain. Their stores all close on Sundays. They run faith-promoting religious ads on Easter and other occasions. They immerse themselves in community efforts but shy away from political activity. They pay workers well and provide health coverage that includes birth control, including 16 of 20 FDA-approved and Obamacare-required contraceptives. But the Greens draw the line at four particular contraceptives (two drugs and two devices) that they sincerely conclude induce abortion rather than preventing pregnancy.
For refusing to have a role in what they conclude is an abortion, they face fines of $100 per employee per day. For 13,000 workers, that is $1.3-million daily, $475-million per year. That is how severely the backers of Obamacare desire to punish anyone who opposes the sexual-social agenda behind their contraception mandate.
Why such an enormous penalty when most birth control pills are now an inexpensive product?
If there is one facet of Obamacare that was rigid from the beginning, it was absolutism on sex without pregnancy. The public may not know whether Obamacare covers an appendectomy, but they know it covers everything related to birth control.