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Hobby Lobby CEO Endorses Trump: America is Only One Liberal Judge Away From Losing Religious Liberty

Jim Hoft Sept. 1, 2016

In June 2014 the US Supreme Court ruled in the Hobby Lobby case that corporations can hold religious objections that allow them to opt out of the new health law requirement that they cover contraceptives for women.
It was the first time the high court has ruled that profit-seeking businesses can hold religious views under federal law.

On Thursday Hobby Lobby CEO David Green urged Americans who believe in religious freedom to support Donald Trump.
“Donald Trump is our only hope for a Supreme Court that will protect freedom of religion.”

USA Today reported:

Since the birth of our nation, religious liberty has laid the foundation for America to become the freest society in the history of mankind.
This spirit of freedom began when the pilgrims fled to the New World to practice their faith freely. It continued when America’s founding fathers ratified the Bill of Rights, which begins with the declaration that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” It was strengthened when Congress almost unanimously adopted theReligious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, ensuring that interests in religious freedom are protected. And it thankfully endured through the Supreme Court caseBurwell v. Hobby Lobby.


At issue in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby was the Affordable Care Act’s Health and Human Service Mandate, which would have required our family business to provide and facilitate four potentially life-terminating drugs and devices in our health insurance plan, against our religious convictions, or pay severe fines of $1.3 million a day. Unlike the 16 contraceptives we do provide, these four drugs can take effect after conception, which is where we believe life begins.


Just as religious liberty laid the foundation for America, my family’s Christian beliefs laid the foundation for our business. First and foremost, as Christians, we are called to love people. As individuals and business owners, we try our best to be true to that calling. We provide excellent benefits to our 30,000 employees and a starting wage for full-time hourly employees that is more than double the federal minimum wage. We have also donated half a billion dollars to philanthropic endeavors. Our Christian beliefs also guided my family’s decision not to pay for the termination of life.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016...gious-liberty/

I truly wish that organizations like Hobby Lobby would oppose Obamacare on its merits such as no American, regardless of "religious objections" should be forced to purchase health insurance and no employer should be forced to provide it.

That said, thank you Hobby Lobby for supporting Donald Trump. Thank you very very much.

by KEN KLUKOWSK
I2 Sep 2016
Washington, DC

Hobby Lobby founder and CEO David Green authored a USA Today op-ed on Thursday, denouncing Hillary Clinton’s militant opposition to traditional Christian beliefs and insisting that her Supreme Court picks would rule against Christians’ rights. He also announced that he is endorsing Donald Trump to ensure a Supreme Court that will uphold Americans’ First Amendment rights under the Constitution.

The Obama administration launched an unprecedented attack on people running their businesses according to their faith when his Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) created a regulation under the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) requiring employers to pay for abortion-related products and services.

As evangelical Christians, the Greens believe that life begins at conception, and that anything that aborts an unborn child after conception ends a human life. Hobby Lobby has 30,000 employees, so not funding abortion-related drugs for its employees (not regular birth control, but rather drugs that induce abortions after conception) meant the company would have to pay $1.3 million per day—almost half a billion dollars per year—in penalties under Obamacare.

Hobby Lobby and the Green family sued, eventually making it all the way to the nation’s highest court, represented by former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement. In 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores held that this regulation violated the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).

“It’s frightening to think that we—and all Americans—were just one vote away from losing our religious freedom,” Green says regarding his Supreme Court case, highlighting that they won that 5-4 case by a single vote. Since that time, Justice Antonin Scalia—a reliable vote for religious liberty—passed away, leaving an open seat on the Supreme Court that will be filled by the next president.

“Make no mistake, the vacancy left by Justice Scalia and the subsequent appointment to fill his seat makes this presidential election one of the most significant in modern times,” he says.

To explain his position, Green quotes Clinton’s April 2015 speech where she declared that Christian beliefs on abortion, marriage, sexuality—and potentially other issues, as well—“have to be changed.” (In another speech, Clinton elaborated on this point, saying that traditional Christian beliefs on LGBT issues are similar to Islamic honor killings and people who cite religion to justify slavery.)

Green goes on to state:

"What I fear she really meant is that the beliefs of people of faith across our nation will be discounted, and those people will be forced to violate their conscience under her presidency—a philosophy that would be carried out by anyone she nominates for the Supreme Court."

By contrast, Donald Trump has published a list of 11 judges he would consider for filling Scalia’s seat, a list of originalist judges experts refer to as a “conservative goldmine.”

Explaining that Trump’s list of potential Supreme Court nominees “inspires confidence that there is hope” for his family to be able to live in a country that respects their fundamental rights to religious liberty, Green tells his fellow American voters, “For Americans who value freedom of religion, we must elect a president who will support a Supreme Court that upholds not only this freedom, but all that have emanated from it. That president is Donald Trump.”

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