Heaven Is Our Destination Where We Will Be ONE With The Lord Forever

Today, we are in The Season Of The Last Generation. The Birth Pains that Christ Jesus spoke about are currently under way, including natural and unnatural disasters. They will be ever increasing. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold. Social, economic and political turmoil will be ever increasing, causing people's hearts to be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life. An apostasy within the Church of God is currently under way. This will all reach a climax with Satan revealing his Antichrist and requiring that everyone worship him; That every one receive his "mark" in order to buy or sell; The new currency of the New World Order, the New Tower of Babel.

Today, it is critical that those who have a heart for God are aware of what God is doing and speaking today. God is opening up His Word like never before in preparation for The Time Of The END. I exhort you to open up your heart and your eyes to see what He is doing and your ears to hear what God is speaking at this time. My prayer is that we will be able to stand before the Son of Man at His appearing, without fault and with great joy. I encourage you to read David Wilkerson's book, America's Last Call at davidwilkersontoday.blogspot.com. Also, Google, Tommy Hicks Prophecy, 1961 for a view of the End Times.

Tom's books include: Called By Christ To Be ONE, The Time Of The END, The Season Of The Last Generation, Worship God In Spirit And In Truth, Daniel And The Time Of The END, and Overcoming The Evil One. They are available at amazon.com. They can also be read without cost by clicking on link: Toms Books.

To receive Christ Jesus as a child by faith is the highest human achievement.

Today, the Bride Of Christ is rising up in every nation in the world! Giving Glory to Her Savior and King, Christ Jesus!
Today, the world is Raging against God, Rushing toward Oblivion! Save yourself from this Corrupt Generation!
Today, America is being ground to powder because of it's SIN against God!

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Wednesday, June 18, 2014

U.S. Courts Now Decide What Is Moral In America.

Last week, in Michigan Catholic Conference v. Burwell, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit rejected the appeal of Catholic nonprofit groups in their challenge to the Obamacare anti-conscience mandate. The court got it wrong by second-guessing the religious beliefs of these groups.
Formal houses of worship and their integrated auxiliaries (e.g., church-run soup kitchens) are exempt from this mandate—which requires employers to pay for employee health insurance coverage that includes contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs—and other nonprofit religious employers are eligible for an “accommodation.” Under the accommodation, employers must self-certify to a third-party administrator that they have a religious objection to providing or paying for certain drugs and devices, and this initiates the process of the third-party administrator providing the mandated coverage to their employees.
Some of the plaintiffs in Michigan Catholic Conference challenged the exemption for discriminating between types of religious institutions in violation of the Establishment Clause. Others challenged the accommodation, arguing that the act of self-certification substantially burdens their exercise of religion in violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and the First Amendment because it makes them complicit in an act that they consider to be a grave violation of their beliefs.
RFRA prohibits the government from substantially burdening free exercise unless it can show that the burden is the least restrictive means of furthering a compelling government interest. While the accommodation supposedly protects religious employers from directly paying for the services, these employers must still initiate and facilitate the process whereby a third-party administrator obtains coverage for the drugs and devices to which the employer objects.
In essence, the accommodation shifts responsibility for purchasing coverage away from the employers to administrators once the employers provide the self-certification registering their objection. But, as other courts have pointed out, this process does “not absolve or exonerate [the employers] from the moral turpitude created by the ‘accommodation.’”
The Sixth Circuit thought otherwise, holding that compliance with the regulations requires only the third-party administrator—not the Catholic groups—to modify its behavior. This case turns on one major issue: Can a court decide for these groups what level of complicity in a grave moral wrong constitutes a “substantial burden” on their religious exercise?
In Thomas v. Review Board (1981), the Supreme Court held that even an indirect burden could be a substantial infringement on free exercise rights. This case, decided before Congress enacted RFRA, involved a steelworker who was denied unemployment benefits after quitting his job because he was assigned to a department that produced tank turrets. Thomas believed that his religion forbade him from making war materials. In siding with Thomas, the Court noted that “[I]t is not within the judicial function and judicial competence to inquire whether [Thomas] correctly perceived the commands of [his] faith. Courts are not arbiters of scriptural interpretation.” Thus, courts should not be in the business of line-drawing when it comes to theological questions.
Though the court in Michigan Catholic Conference purported to take the groups at their word that the self-certification would violate their consciences, it stated that it must “independently determine” whether this was a substantial burden. But as First Amendment scholar Eugene Volokh writes:
[T]he question isn’t whether a judge or jury agrees with a person’s claim that a law [that] requires him to engage in behavior is sinful—it is whether the person sincerely believes that the behavior is sinful. Likewise, when the person believes that complicity itself is sinful, the question is not whether our secular legal system thinks that he has drawn the right line as to complicity; it is whether he sincerely believes that the complicity is sinful.
But the Sixth Circuit found this matter distinct from “how the regulatory measure actually works.” The court claimed that the act of self-certifying doesn’t trigger coverage of objectionable drugs and devices, because “it was already triggered by the enactment of [Obamacare].” That claim is mistaken, since the regulation mandating this insurance coverage came a year afterCongress passed Obamacare, and the accommodation was promulgated well after that.
Instead of construing the regulations, the court was actually passing a judgment on the Catholic groups’ religious belief—and that’s exactly what RFRA is supposed to prevent. As another appellate court wisely highlighted inanother case challenging the Obamacare mandate, the government “purports to answer the religious question underlying these cases: Does providing this coverage impermissibly assist the commission of a wrongful act in violation of the moral doctrines of the Catholic Church? No civil authority can decide that question.”
More than 100 lawsuits on behalf of over 300 individuals, nonprofits, and for-profits have been filed challenging aspects of the Obamacare anti-conscience mandate. And on New Year’s Eve, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor granted an emergency injunction to the Little Sisters of the Poor in a similar case challenging the so-called accommodation. Their case is still pending before the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
My comments: Today, U.S. Courts have made themselves the Temples of Morality in America and Religious Freedom is EXTINGUISHED. These godless, Secular Humanist Judges have made themselves the arbiters of Theology. Ironically, this is exactly what the Founders of this Nation came to America to Escape. The came looking for the Freedom to worship God according to their Faith and Conscience. Now Christians are FORCED, by their Government, to do that which is against their Faith and Conscience. There will a special place in Hell for these arrogant people. It would be better for them to have a Millstone tied around their necks and be thrown into the sea. (Matthew 18:6)  

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