Mark 13:13 “You will be hated by all because of My name, but the one who endures to the end, he will be saved.”
Hobby Lobby’s challenge to the contraception mandate in the Affordable Care Act is scheduled for oral arguments before the Supreme Court Tuesday.
The challenge, if upheld by the court, would establish the right of Christian business owners and other people of faith to operate their businesses based on their beliefs. It would also extend the long-claimed rights of individuals to religious freedom to business entities.
The Obama Administration’s defense in the case is that companies are not individuals and therefore the government can deny free exercise rights and force them to do whatever the government wants in return for being allowed to operate.
Hobby Lobby’s challenge to the law has been folded in with multiple other cases but the company is one of two major for-profit corporations that are issuing a challenge to the law. If the law is upheld, it would cost Hobby Lobby almost $475 million a year to operate without providing the coverage that goes against the owner’s faith.
Hobby Lobby’s attorneys are expected to point out to the court that the Administration has given exemptions to non-profits and religious organizations that have the same objections.
This is more important than most think. If Hobby Lobby looses, then it is one more right of the Church that is taken away. And remember satan is patient, he is satisfied with a small chip at a time. Nikita Khrushchev said that communism would bury U.S. most thought he meant the bomb, he meant no such thing. He knew that we would be buried with socialistic thinking that would find its way into our government, and it has. If you read Tom Horn’s book Zenith 2016 you will see what was planned 200+ years ago is coming to pass. I also agree with John Shorey that the turning of this country back to its roots is gone. The next awakening will be the last harvest. Which goes along with the teachings of the feasts by our Rabbi and Pastor Mark Biltz (whom I consider a Rabbi also). What some think that events will take months will happen in days and what they think will happen in days will happen in hours. I really feel this from the LORD. Shalom, Shalom Baruch to all