Woman-friendly Catholic business sues over HHS mandate
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A businesswoman who has filed the most recent lawsuit against the federal contraception mandate believes that the government must respect her identity as a Catholic woman as well as a business owner.
“I’m a total integrated person,” said Mary Anne Yep, co-founder and vice president of Triune Health Group.
Yep told CNA on Aug. 23 that she cannot separate her identity as a woman, a business owner and a Catholic. The government cannot expect her to “carve out a portion” of herself during working hours, she said.
Yep helped found Triune Health Group in 1990, along with her husband, Christopher, who serves as the company’s president and CEO.
The company was recently named the Best Place to Work for Women in the Chicago metro area by Crain’s Chicago Business.
Yep said that the award, based on an anonymous employee survey, is a testimony that her employees are happy.
“They feel cared about,” she said. “They know their dignity is respected.”
The Yeps and their business are suing both the federal government and the state of Illinois for infringing upon their religious freedom in their business decisions.
An Aug. 23 statement announcing the lawsuit explained that the Yeps “view business as a form of religious stewardship and an integral part of their lives as faithful Roman Catholics.”
However, they feel that their ability to live out their faith in their business is compromised by a controversial mandate that requires employers to offer health insurance plans that cover contraception, sterilization and early abortion-inducing drugs, even if doing so violates their consciences.
The mandate has been challenged by nearly 60 plaintiffs, including dioceses, religious charities and for-profit businesses. [More]
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What business does she have deciding what legal and legitimate medical prescriptions and procedures her employees receive? Would you all be okay with a Christian Scientist not providing any healthcare for their employees other than praying for them? Because that is what is at stake.
Repealing “Obamacare” won’t make Catholic teaching on contraception and the “pro-life bundle” more acceptable, even to Catholics. Ditto for the reversal of Roe v Wade. Passing laws and winning in court are not substitutes for persuasion based on the facts rather than the politics.
I wonder why Obama issued so many exemptions to his friends, yet threatens to enforce religiously these controversial Obamacare regulations on those that want to opt out on freedom of religion grounds.
Here’s why, Don_E — Obama is working with the evil one. The first three-digit lottery drawing in his home state (IL) after he was elected in 2008 was 666 — a message from God to our country that we have elected a man who will be a scourge on our country — and he has been.
Sure, but the sign of the beast is 616, so I’m not sure your point still stands. Furthermore, the Catholic church believes that the events in Revelations were referring to the first century Roman rulers, and not a doomsday Biblical apocalypse scenario lead by a world leader tied to the number 666 (or 616) somehow.
Hey Jimmy boy!
Hope I was the first to point out the correct number is 616.
BTW, you must have some mystical interpretation as to why God created this hurricane to ruin the GOP convention.
Can’t wait to hear it.
Hey Denny boy! Hey blaggy boy! (That just doesn’t have a ring to it, does it?) Okay, I’ll leave my rocket science calculations for a moment to answer both of your posts. Yes, Dennis, you pointed out the 616 connection first. What I mentioned in a prior post on another thread is that language and symbols are arbitrary; they are used to communicate information. So, if I want water, I tell my American waiter I want water, and my Hispanic waiter I want aqua. Same thing, different symbol. So, in talking to 21st century America, which has a Bible that gives the mark of the beast as 666, God made the lottery come out that way to send us a message we would understand. And, with regard to the book of Revelations being about the first century persecution of Christians: true, but that doesn’t at all mean that that is the extent of its application. I am ocnfident credible Catholic theologians believe the book also is applicable to the end times.
Blag — so, how did I do with my “logic bat?” — for that phrase, I give you credit. Did by logic bat hit it out of the park, or was it just a tap back to the mound?
Logic and claiming that a translation error was intentionally caused by an perfect-in-every-way, invisible sky man that totally cares for you but created you imperfectly because he created the first creatures of your species with stupidity and curiosity and got extremely upset when another invisible and evil creature got the original two to eat a fruit (an easy task because of the stupidity and curiosity specifically) and you bear the cost of their burden, as well as damning you to hell for eternity if you don’t believe in him, even though he loves you completely and knows what proof of himself each one of us needs and has the power to show us that proof but for some reason does not show everybody, are completely separate things.
With all due respect, I think you need more practice with your logic bat.
Also, I cannot take credit for that phrase, I heard it somewhere else. I’m glad you like it though.
Blag — I did not say “a translation error was intentionally caused by a perfect-in-every-way invisible sky man” — and I don’t think that is true. Imperfect humans caused that translation error (if indeed an error occured at all — maybe the original text did say 666, in spite of what was found on one parchment). But, given the error, God took that into account to send us a message we would understand by making the IL lottery come out the way it did.
addendum to blag: since I did not say what you said I said, therefore your charge that that issue is separate from logic is a straw man argument — you disagree with something I never said in the first place.
So, what would you have thought if the Illinois lottery came up with 616? I doubt anybody would have given it a second thought.
And if god is willing to change his message because humans mistranslated the Bible, then I would imagine the Catholic church could do the same thing, because now the “correct” number is 666. It’s just ridiculous all around to make the claims you are making, it doesn’t follow logic, and DENNIS was spot on when he talked about you looking into god’s message with the hurricane and numerology. Have fun with that, but that’s fundamentally not logic – it’s reading what you want into current events.
Oh, Blag, you with the logic bat who thinks so illogically. First, God didn’t “change His message” because of a mistranslation of the Bible — He simply was using the language we understand (666) to communicate with us — what is so hard to understand about that? Also, to infer that the Catholic Church could make other mistakes because of a misrendering of what was found on parchment is ridiculous. The belief about Scripture being inerrant does not apply to the specific details; details (like numbers0 are not important, but rather the overall message is what is inerrantly inspired. The Church gets the message correct. BTW, different Gospel accounts of the same event disagree with each other on deatils, proving that the details are not inerrant, but also that they are not what is important. Quit swinging your “logic bat” at everything, blag, and instend try to get the message. Stop missing the forest for the trees.
Blag — I’ll bet I’m not the first person to tell you that you miss the forest for the trees — am I? It’s the characteristic way you think. It doesn’t make you a bad guy, but it does make you miss some obvious things. And, for you to conclude the Church could be wrong about dogma because of a mistranslation of what was found on parchment is completely illogical — you, Mr. Logic Bat himself. Well, you’re like a plumber — their plumbing is usually the worst. You value logic, but then you exhibit none yourself.
Jim. I like your 666 thing and I hope you take up Biblical Numerology as well.
But what I am anxious waiting for is your interpretation of why God created this hurricane to ruin the GOP convention.
Thanks for asking, Dennis. Well, it could be because, without a doubt, God does not want us to reelect Mr. 666. He already told us how bad a choice we made way back in November 2008 through the IL lottery after Obama was elected. So, perhaps God is trying to give the Republican convention additional publicity by having it potentially disrupted by a hurricane.
Now, back to the number crunching: as x approaches zero …..
How long will x take to get to zero if you cut it half every second?
You are a character.
Infinity, baby.
In other words, a damn long time.
Here, Dennis, maybe you understand this: ∞
Here’s a better question: how much wood would a woodchuck chuck is a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Perhaps even better: how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
Jim.
Do they have to dance?
It makes the problem a lot harder.
Yes, Dennis, they all have to dance, and all of their feet will touch the head of the pin at the same time. Does that create geological problems?
Also, Dennis, to make the calculations more difficult — but you’re up for it, I know — they are all BREAK-DANCING.
Better yet: how many rocket scientists does it take to change a light bulb?
Jim.
Thanks for your answer.
I was hoping for a little more fire and brimstone though.
Yah, Dennis, I saw the trap and avoided it like the plague. That was an obvious trap, you know? Kinda like having a beautiful, thin, naked young woman invite me over to her house, but I see you are on the roof with a rifle aimed in my direction. You have to be a little more discrete than that.
To clarify: God is very much aware that even bad publicity is better than no publicity, so the more publicity the Republican convention receives, the better the chances for Romney.
Bravo to Mrs. Yep.