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Hobby Lobby Files Religious Liberty Lawsuit Challenging HHS Mandate
Posted by The Congressional Prayer Caucus | October 09, 2012

The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty recently filed a lawsuit on behalf of Hobby Lobby, a private retail chain owned by a Christian family, challenging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) contraceptives mandate that violates the religious freedom of scores of Americans.  Hobby Lobby’s lawsuit is unique because it is the first non-Catholic-owned private business to challenge the mandate. 

David Green, CEO of Hobby Lobby, penned an op-ed explaining the company’s challenge to the mandate: “My family has lived the American dream. We want to continue growing our company and providing great jobs for thousands of employees, but the government is going to make that much more difficult. The government is forcing us to choose between following our faith and following the law. I say that’s a choice no American — and no American business — should have to make.”  On August 1, 2012, the HHS mandate took effect that requires most employers to sponsor employee health plans that that cover abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization, and contraceptives—services directly violate many employers’ religious beliefs.

The Greens, like many Americans, wish to operate their private business in a manner that is consistent with their faith.  Unless it is altered or overturned, the HHS mandate will force these individuals to choose between acting in accordance with their religious beliefs on one hand, and complying with a government mandate on the other.  In 1809 Thomas Jefferson proclaimed, “No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.”  Jefferson’s words are as true today as they were more than 200 years ago, and Members of the Prayer Caucus will continue working to ensure that Americans are not forced to leave their faith at home when they enter the public square.

To read the op-ed by David Green, CEO of Hobby Lobby, click here: http://ow.ly/dIQpb 

To track all the religious liberty lawsuits filed against the HHS mandate, click here: http://ow.ly/ddrMV

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  • Linda Templet commented on 10/17/2012
    Linquistics is the scientific study of LANGUAGE. Last night many of us sat down and ate supper together. Our supper was not food for our human bodies to digest; it was food for our MINDS to digest. Now I could not digest a lot of the food that President Obama and Governor Romney dished out because I am IGNORANT. I have a lack knowledge; education, experience and understanding in how jobs are CREATED. There was one thing that my EAR HEARD and I know who I am going to vote for. One of the canadiates said, "I BELIEVE IN GOD". That did it for me. This is a POWERFUL WITNESS. If GOD REIGNS in this mans LIFE and MIND then he will do everything that he can possibly do to line up with the Word of God because he would feel that his posistion would be the HIGHEST posistion of leadership in our country. He does not see himself accountable to man--He sees himself as being accountable to GOD. Like Jesus--he will always turn to our SPIRITUAL FATHER that is found in the WORD OF GOD for wisdom and understanding in How to make America a Divine Providence. The Word of God will instruct him in the way that he SHOULD GO. God has REIGNED in this mans life, his wifes life and his families life for many years. The character of a man tells us who the man is and what hhe stands for. Is he RICH? Sure he is rich; doesn't the Bible say "I WILL MAKE YOU RICH"? Him being rich is not what we should look at. What we should look at is did he get rich from deceiving people, stealing, cheating and lying? Did he get rich by TAKING BRIBES or did he get rich by opening small businesses that GREW to become GIANT COMPANIES? Did he get rich because he knew how to invest his money in the right ways of life. If he can get rich with his know how to run a business, then he can make our America RICH also.God has blessed this man with much knowledge and understanding in how to handle money. We can not be jealous of this man who became RICH because he knew how to manage money. Our LEADERS put our country in a hole because they did not know how to handle money or create jobs. This man who said, "I believe in GOD" is GOD SENT. He did not say this to get a VOTE because his CHARACTER PROVES him to be a GOD LIKE MAN. So people if we want the blessings of God in our country, we must have a LEADER WHO BELIEVES IN GOD running our country. If GOD REIGNS in this mans life--GOD WILL REIGN IN AMERICA. Amen
  • Linda Templet commented on 10/22/2012
    God told NO--AH it was going to RAIN 40 days and 40 nights. Looks like The WORDS of GOD is PROVED to be true. His REIGN has begun people. Thank GOD!!! He is answering OUR PRAYERS! Can you SEE HIS REIGN yet? No--AH saw his REIGN coming because NO--AH WAS A MAN OF GOD. NO--AH was a man OF RIGHTEOUSNESS!! God uses his righteous children to bring HIS REIGN and that is why God choose NO--AH to build HIS ARK!! Get excited people!! Gods REIGN is going to FLOOD THIS COUNTRY!! Praise GOD--it is a MIRACLE!! WOW do you all see the DEAD IN CHRIST RISING? Well you won't really see that until God SENDS the HELL FIRE REVIVALS. When are the Hell Fire Revivals going to start all across this nation preachers? I think they need to start up 6 days before the WEDDING. God did make everything in 6 days didn't he? Lets see--how many churches are there in this nation? Now multiply that times eights souls saved at every service. There were 8 souls saved in No--ahs ark wasn't there? God instructed No--AH how to build HIS ARK. Now if there are any preachers out there that read the articles that appear on this website, PLEASE pay attention to the materials that GOD instructed NO--AH to use while he is building his ARK. First of all the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits and the height of it thirty cubits. A WINDOW shall thou MAKE to the ark and in a cubit shall thou FINISH IT above; and the DOOR of the ark shalt thou SET IN THE SIDE thereof, with LOWER, SECOND and THIRD STORIES shall thou make it. Do not forget--you are getting spiritual instructions not earthly instructions nor does God who is a SPIRIT want you to use any earthly materials building his ark. He uses spiritual material so get your eyes off of a wooden BOAT being built and focus on your ARK as a SERMON. Paul says to rightly Divide the WORD of God so can you rightly divide the word CUBIT so you can get the spiritual meaning to the word. This book is CODED can you break the code? How does a preacher save a soul? He preaches a message from the WORD of God--The Bible--that will convict a person to see that his message is talking directly to him. The person hearing the message starts to feel guilt and shame and his spirit connects to the righteous message and the person gets convicted within his heart and repents for the thing that the person has done. Then the persons SPIRIT feels clean again because he has got his guilt of shame removed from him with Gods conviction. Now to spiritually understand the word cubit the first three letters are C--(see) U (you) B--(be) it.The length of the sermon must be 300 c--u--b--its the breadth--50 C--U--B-ITS Every preacher's sermon has to touch the heart of man in order to change a mans nature. See HE can STILL open the EYES of the blind. The blind doesn't have spiritual eyes to see or spiritual ears to hear. So without spiritual eyes or spiritual ears how on earth can anyone have any SPIRITUAL understanding to the SPIRITUAL BOOK called the BIBLE. Hey--you want new JOBS CREATED? HERE is a new job that can put many people to WORK!! It is a JOB trying to take the story of Noah Ark and turning it around to find out the spiritual MEANING of a story. It took me YEARS to see that THIS BOOK was trying to show me that IF I am reading a spiritual book I MUST THINK SPIRITUAL and I MUST know the spiritual MEANINGS to the WORDS that I am silently reading to myself.This is a NEW SPIRITUAL DISCOVERY for our NEW SPIRITUAL WORLD that is about to be created, formed, and made. NOONE on this earth has explained to you the story of Noahs Ark like I have done--God is using ME to deliver the TRUTH to you. Hey, women are the ones who give BIRTH--not men--So I am delivering this NEW WISDOM to you all. This is a SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGH. It is a NEW CREATION and it WILL CREATE JOBS for a new way of studying all across this nation. And this NEW IDEA is coming from America. It is Americas Discovery. This King James Version of The Bible is NOT a book of lies--it is a Book of TRUTHS. Understanding what we are reading in this Spiritual Book can be taught in every single school in all countries. And as we get Spiritual Understanding we are building MORALS AND VALUES all across this nation! EDUCATION is important in ALL FORMS. We need educational instutions to teach our children how to UNDERSTAND THE NATURE of mankind. Spirit IS NATURE. We need Gods Nature being the KING OVER THE NATURE OF MAN. England has the QUEEN-- BY GOD WE GOT THE KING!! GOD!! The Bible says that God IS--a SPIRIT. IF he IS a SPIRIT--then we MUST understand that his words are relateing to SPIRIT things NOT HUMAN THINGS.This is the MYSTERY OF GOD that is talked about in the Book of Revelations 10--7. But in the days OF THE VOICE of the seventh angel, when HE shall BEGIN TO SOUND, the MYSTERY OF GOD SHOULD BE FINISHED, as HE has declared to his servants--the prophets. The PROFITS that comes from learning the meaning to this spiritual book called the BIBLE is unbelievable. Gods REIGN in our country is going to morally and virtually bring big profits to America. Gods REIGN WILL stop corruption--it WILL get rid of evil WAYS--it WILL take the FILTH off of our televisions sets--It WILL STOP the INFLUENCING of our childrens MINDS so WE can raise our children in the WAYS that they SHOULD GO! I don't have much time left on this earth and I AM NOT going to die with the WISDOM--KNOWLEDGE--and UNDERSTANDING that GOD has given to me to share with the ones who want to receive it. If you think I am a crazy woman --its okay--because my Bible says many are called but FEW ARE CHOSEN. GODS WORDS are TRUTH! Look at the TRUTH happening NOW people--Gods REIGN is beginning to take over .Is His REIGN beginning to sink into the GROUND yet. Well it isn't really sinking into the ground yet but sooner or later we will have GROUNDS for a lawsuit. I guarentee you that lawsuits will be filed to try to stop Gods SERVANT from becoming PRESIDENT of the United States of America--but have NO FEAR--this PROFIT WILL BE OUR NEXT Father IMAGE for our country. If you look closer you will see the raindrops are becoming visible .As a matter of fact, pretty soon GODS REIGN is going to be POURING DOWN as more and more people begin UNITING TOGETHER for this MARRIAGE SUPPER. By November 6, 2012 we will see GODS REIGN FLOODING in the POLLS!! Praise God. Tonight we will be having another debate between our Presidential canidates. Now watch for the lightening--watch for them to quickly jump up quickly and hear the VOICE OF THE THUNDER? Since when does thunder have a VOICE--I have always heard the SOUND of THUNDER. We need some English Lessons so we can fully UNDERSTAND VEILED LANGUAGE-- Idioms, parables, abstracts, personification, simlitudes--and things of THAT NATURE. Then we might be able to understand that this book is showing us how very uneducated we really are when it comes to understanding ENGLISH AND SCIENCE. There is a science to RIGHTLY DIVIDING the WORD OF GOD. A word has sences to--just like people. My spiritual senses tells me that we can HEAR the SOUND of thunder from the sky, but when we hear the VOICE of thunder--i tis coming from a man. Now take this GREATEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN BY MAN--The King James VERSION of the BIBLE-- and let us remove the VEILED WORDS so we can see the FACE of this BRIDE. A BRIDE is not just a married woman--it is also a THREAD or LOOP that joins a PATTERN together. Can I get an educational GRANT for the SCIENTIFIC STUDY and DISCOVERY OF THE BIBLE? I will call it the TEMPLET FOUNDATION OF ARTISTIC ARTS. What is a Templet? Its ME! I could hire many men and women who went to COLLEGE right now because it is going to take YEARS OF STUDY to correctly understand this book that was written by the MOST HIGHLY EDUCATED PEOPLE OF English, Science, History, Math, Biology etc. This book is worth studying the NATURE OF MAN. Lets see--when one get married, what do they need? Something OLD--Something--NEW--something BORROWED--and something BLUE. I think we have it all gathered together--It is TIME for THE MARRIAGE! How much PROOF do you all need?
  • Linda Templet commented on 10/25/2012
    The headlines on this internet reads--Romney looks to personalize his PITCH. Now isn't this amazing--God told No--AH make THEE an ark of GOPHER Wood, rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt PITCH IT inside and out. Now I want to know one thing. Where is the PITCH FOR GOD? What--are we going to keep His Name out of this election? God told NO--AH to pitch it within AND WITHOUT. So start pitching Gods Name in these speeches somewhere. After all--you got to GO---PHER THE WOOD that God instructs us to do!!!! Follow the instructions people. Start the GOD PITCH NOW!!! Gods REIGN is comming!! People needs to hear that with their EARS!! What are you canidates going to do concerning OUR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY?? If you can't PITCH it now--you won't be able to PITCH IT LATER. Wow--we going to learn and understand this STORY yet!!
  • Linda Templet commented on 10/30/2012
    Noone knows how to create jobs like God does. The Perfect Storm arrived. Sometimes we have to take our eyes off of the bad and look at the Good that will come out of this terrible disaster.I know what it is like riding out a storm--I was in Katrina. I know the heartache and pain of seeing your house being destroyed. But let us look at this for just a moment. We have much to that God for---God just CREATED JOBS for people all across this nation.--Do you see that? He sent the RAIN--the WIND--the SNOW and the FLOOD. How long has people been out of work? Well now there are plenty of JOBS TO DO. Are any of you thanking GOD for that? Everyone had been warned that Sandy was comming to their area. Did they listen to the warning and leave their area? No, they ignored the warnings. How long did we know about this storm coming? Could a life had been saved if they had of just gotten out of the area? I know--people didn't have the money to leave all of a sudden--well how much did we save for a rainy day. If your like me--NOTHING. We didn't have the money to leave either--but that was our fault; not GODS. We could have saved for something unexpected but we spent it all. GOD gets the GLORY for THESE JOBS being created here because this STORM is going to put our people back to work. So this morning I pray that God will comfort the ones who are in pain this morning. I am not ignoring the hurt and the pain that people are enduring right this very moment because of this disastorous event. Once we look past the pain we will be able to see Gods blessings. We now have some long lasting JOBS for a lot of people out of work. Lets us thank GOD for these BLESSINGS.
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