The US Federal Government vs. Hobby Lobby, et al.

Unfortunately a federal court has already ruled against Hobby Lobby's request for injunction for protection against the fascist Affordable Care Act.  See Citizenlink.  The judges' opinion is -- How can words adequately describe it?  It is stunning and almost breathtaking, as you can see in this excerpt:

The purpose of the free exercise clause is “to secure religious liberty in the individual by prohibiting any invasions thereof by civil authority.” Sch. Dist. of Abington Twp. v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203, 223 (1963) (emphasis added).  Churches and other religious organizations or religious corporations have been accorded protection under the free exercise clause, see Hosanna–Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church & Sch. v. EEOC, ___ U.S.___, ___, 132 S.Ct. 694, 706 (2012); Lukumi, 508 U.S. at 531-32, because believers “exercise their religion through religious organizations.”  Corp. of Presiding Bishop of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints v. Amos, 483 U.S. 327, 341 (1987) (BRENNAN, J. concurring) (internal quotations omitted).  However, Hobby Lobby and Mardel are not religious organizations.  Plaintiffs have not cited, and the court has not found, any case concluding that secular, for-profit corporations such as Hobby Lobby and Mardel have a constitutional right to the free exercise of religion.

Therefore the court is attempting to sidestep the whole question of the First Amendment's protection of the rights of individuals (the owners) to the free exercise of religion and focus only on the "rights" of the corporations.  What the court is effectively saying is that the free exercise of religion is protected by the US Constitution ONLY if that exercise is carried out through a "religious organization".  And since these corporations have purposes in addition to "religious" purposes (such as earning a profit for their owners), they do not qualify as "religious organizations".  And therefore, the rights of the individuals who are owners of those organizations to the free exercise of religion within the operation of the corporations are not protected by the Constitution.  Talk about twisted logic!  

The First Amendment doesn't mention anything about the venue in which religion is exercised.  It states simply: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

I think most people have no idea what the government, particularly the Federal Government, has been and is doing.  I say "has been doing" because courts are theoretically constrained to base their rulings on precedent.  Because of this long-established principle, it would have been very difficult (though not impossible) for this court to have ruled as it did were it not for the preceding rulings it has built its opinion on.  This trend has been ongoing for many decades, and the American people have literally been asleep at the wheel.

The Constitution and its plain wording still remain.  But the interpretations that judges have made of that document are anything but plain -- and those interpretations have the binding force of law!  So now we live in this strange, almost surreal, world where the "Supreme Law of the Land" has been superseded by what a few judges say that it says.

Fortunately I do not place my faith in the Constitution nor any other man-ordained law.  As that great hymn states, "My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness."

Nonetheless, if we do not rise in opposition to what is taking place, we will be judged by our successors, our children and grandchildren, of being willing parties to it.  They'll rightly wonder why we sat by and did nothing as this nation was destroyed from within --  and their liberty along with it. 

Isaiah 5 states, "Woe to those who draw sin along with cords of deceit, and wickedness as with cart ropes, to those who say, 'Let God hurry;  let him hasten his work so we may see it.  The plan of the Holy One of Israel—  let it approach, let it come into view,  so we may know it.' Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.  Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.  Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks, who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice to the innocent." -- Isaiah 5:18-23.  I pray for God's mercy on those who are on the wrong side -- especially since my own daughters are currently in that crowd.  I pray for the mercy of Jesus who hung on the cross and said, "Father forgive them for they know not what they do."  I live in hope He will draw a distinction between the leaders and the misled.

Yes, I think we need to get the word out to as many people as we can.  We certainly can't trust the mainstream media to get the people's attention on this while this Administration is trying to quietly slip it through.  We also need to be actively writing our Congressmen and Senators and yes, the Administration, too.