Sen. Chuck Schumer’s religious test
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nypost.com ^ | 7/12/14
Chuck Schumer has an odd view of the First Amendment.
If on the basis of religious conviction you refuse to pay for something Schumer wants you to pay for, he believes you forfeit your right to have a business.
Never mind that the Supreme Court just ruled the opposite in the Hobby Lobby case. At a press conference announcing a new bill designed to change the law that was the basis of that ruling, he put it this way:
“We wouldn’t tell the owners of Hobby Lobby to convert to a different religion or disobey their religion,” said Schumer. “But we don’t say that they have to open a company and go sell toys or hobby kits.” Businesses have no religious freedom, he said, because their “purpose is to profit from the open market.”
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand was blunter still: “Congress must make it clear that businesses aren’t people and do not have the same rights people have.”
By that twisted logic, a family-owned kosher or halal butcher shop would have no religious grounds to challenge a law — similar to ones already enacted in Europe — that bars kosher slaughter.
Nor could those same butchers forbid an employee or customer from bringing non-kosher or non-halal food into their stores, because that would constitute imposing their beliefs.
The Constitution forbids a religious test for public office. Surely the men who drafted these protections would be aghast to see a United States senator suggesting the federal government impose one for running a business.
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Contraception and abortion are sacraments of the left and ALL must partake or be destroyed...in the name of liberty of course.
1 posted on 7/12/2014, 8:26:18 AM by cotton1706
To: cotton1706
Chuck Schumer is the best argument for term limits.
3 posted on 7/12/2014, 8:30:52 AM by Rummyfan
To: cotton1706
Contraception and abortion are sacraments of the left ...Their god is DEATH.
5 posted on 7/12/2014, 8:33:43 AM by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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A red diaper doper baby who went straight from Harvard Law into politics and has never made an honest dollar of his own, living off our taxes and telling us how we should live our lives.
6 posted on 7/12/2014, 8:35:49 AM by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: cotton1706
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
7 posted on 7/12/2014, 8:36:03 AM by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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Chuck Schumer’s the best argument for post birth abortion!
8 posted on 7/12/2014, 8:37:44 AM by HenpeckedCon
To: cotton1706
Isaiah 5:20
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
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9 posted on 7/12/2014, 8:38:39 AM by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: cotton1706
This bill will NOT pass. I believe they are attempting to reassure their evil/misguided base and promote the “war on women” foolishness. You can be sure the “war on women” will be the heavy theme pushed in the election of 2016.
Dumb....and dumber.
10 posted on 7/12/2014, 8:42:10 AM by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
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To: cotton1706
“Businesses have no religious freedom, he said, because their “purpose is to profit from the open market.”
Note he said “open market” instead of “free market”. The word “free” isnt in his vocabulary.
11 posted on 7/12/2014, 8:45:29 AM by lowbridge
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This asshat is a Jew who worships at the altar of the Demmycrats who, by their very beliefs and actions, hate Jews.
12 posted on 7/12/2014, 8:48:22 AM by laweeks
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To: cotton1706
Chuck Schumer has an odd view of the First Amendment.No, he doesn't...
His view supersedes the Constitution, after all he's Chuck Schumer senior Senator from New York State...
13 posted on 7/12/2014, 8:50:43 AM by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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“We wouldn’t tell the owners of Hobby Lobby to convert to a different religion or disobey their religion,” said Schumer."AT THIS TIME!"
He didn't say this but you got to know that he is thinking this!
14 posted on 7/12/2014, 8:50:57 AM by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: laweeks
Obama hates Jews. Jews, as evidenced by their vote[s] love Obama. In fact, I would go as far as to say they worship him.
15 posted on 7/12/2014, 8:51:11 AM by sport
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To: cotton1706
So you cannot have faith in God nor can you follow God’s law anymore in the US. Schumer wants religion outlawed in the US. Maybe believers should take all their wealth, and businesses and move to Mexico. Take billions out of this economy and give it to another country
16 posted on 7/12/2014, 8:56:32 AM by realcleanguy
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Businesses have no religious freedom, he said, because their “purpose is to profit from the open market.” So Chuckie... You toothless faggot.!! You now have the right to decree WHO and WHAT has the right to religious freedom do you....
Hey Chuck... Do you realize how many people in this country despise you.? Doesn't that frighten you just a little bit..? I hope and pray the someday justice catches up with you, and I'm there to see it..!
17 posted on 7/12/2014, 8:57:57 AM by unread (Rescind the 17th. Amendment...bring the power BACK to the states...!)
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To: laweeks
Isaiah, 5:25
Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
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18 posted on 7/12/2014, 8:58:32 AM by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: cotton1706; Carry_Okie
Isn’t owning a business the same thing as owning any other type of property?
Isn’t Congress infringing on the owners’ property rights?
19 posted on 7/12/2014, 8:59:36 AM by sauropod |
