What Is (and Isn't) at Stake for Obamacare in the Hobby Lobby Case

Sorry meant Hobby Lobby.

So what will be your stance when the government funds abortions. Will you stop paying your taxes? As the US moves closer and closer to secular Europe (in some ways we are already pass them), will their come a time when health plans and the government pay for abortions. Will you say that Romans gives you the obligation to withhold your taxes?

I don’t directly pay for abortions via my taxes. If however there were an “abortion tax” where the money from such a tax (let’s say on newborns) went directly to abortions, I’d happily not pay that tax and go to jail over it.
I do think the day is coming in the next 50 years were some parts of the country will try to do a peaceful secession rather than go along with Washington.

Shaynus,

I don’t think your taxes will be segmented to such a degree that you can pinpoint exactly which amount goes to abortions. But the day is coming when your taxes will pay for abortions.

On the other hand Hobby Lobby was not directly paying for abortive contraceptives either. They were paying for insurance coverage for a third party, who would then cover that if the individual so elected.

With that said, I think it is odd that Hobby Lobby would go to the Supreme Court over this, yet their own employee 401K plan owns stock in the exact same comanies that they argued they did not want to support for these contraceptions.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/01/investing/hobby-lobby-401k-contraceptio…

At the end of the day all of our money is getting mixed up more and more. We don’t even know where our tax dollars really end up going. That is why I think the biblical direction is still valid. It the Lord wanted us to fight over how the government spends our money or spend inordinate amount of time fighting for these things, it would have been clear. But in the end, the Lord told the Jews to pay unto Ceasar what is his, even though it was going to pay for temples to other gods (which is a violation of the 10 commandments) and even go toward the crucifixion of his own Son. But in the end that is not our focus. No where does Scripture teach that we are to “fix” the world. That is not the gospel.

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For example, what if a company didn’t want to hire a woman because their religious belief was that woman should be stay at home moms. What if they said that woman could be employees, but couldn’t be promoted to management, because it would take them away from home. What if a company said it didn’t want to hire minorities on religious grounds. It was only a short time ago when minorities weren’t allowed into some of our fundamentalist institutions on religious and biblical grounds.

What can be denied on what religious grounds? Now the ruling today sounds good because it is aligned with our Judeo-Christian values. But those are quickly waning as the predominate religious views of society.

I think the free market would take care of that in a hurry. Just as the free market could affect Hobby Lobby, but in this case it might actually make more people shop there, as we saw happen with Chick-Fil-A a few years ago. If a company’s religious beliefs are such that no one will want to work there and no one will want to shop there, it probably will not last long. I would argue that much of what our governmental agenices try to “protect” workers from would work themselves out pretty quickly without the government getting involved. The longer time goes on, the more our government’s power grows, which I don’t think is a good thing. This decision was a very minor tap of the brakes, but I am thankful for it.