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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Thursday, March 24, 2016

SOTOMAYOR: HOW CAN GOVERNMENT FUNCTION IF IT CAN' MAKE PEOPLE DO THINGS THEY BELIEVE WILL DAMN THEIR SOULS?

Justice: How Can Gov’t Function If It Can’t Make People Do Things They Believe Will Damn Their Souls?

By Terence P. Jeffrey | March 24, 2016 | 12:29 PM EDT
Justice Sonia Sotomayor leaves the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 4, 2009, after attending the annual Red Mass. (Screen Capture)
In oral arguments in the Supreme Court yesterday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked an attorney representing East Texas Baptist University, Southern Nazarene University, Geneva College and the Little Sisters of the Poor whether the United States government would ever be able to function if it could not demand that people do things that those people believe will cause their souls to “be damned in some way.”
“Because every believer that’s ever come before us, including the people in the military, are saying that my soul will be damned in some way,” said Sotomayor. “I’m not naysaying that that is a very substantial perceived personal burden by them. But if that’s always going to be substantial, how will we ever have a government that functions? How will we ever have anything that the government can demand people do in objecting…that won’t be a problem?”
The case—Zubik v. Burwell—is looking at the question of whether the Obama administration can force Catholic and Protestant non-profit institutions to cooperate in a government regulatory scheme that would use the health-care plans of those institutions to deliver coverage for sterilizations, contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs and devices.
(Screen capture from the transcript of the oral argument in Zubik v. Burwell as posted on the Supreme Court's website.)
The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., which is one of the plaintiffs in the case, summarized the argument made by the Catholic organizations in its brief to the court.
This brief noted that the Obama administration’s regulation would put a “substantial burden” on the Catholics’ religious exercise by forcing them to act against their faith by signing a document that authorizes and obligates their insurance provider to provide the objectionable services—including abortion-inducing drugs and device--to their employees and by forcing them to maintain a health plan and a continuing relationship with a health-plan provider that provides these objectionable services to their employees.
“Petitioners in these consolidated cases are Catholic nonprofits that are being forced to decide between taking actions that violate their sincerely held religious beliefs or incurring massive penalties.
“In accordance with their faith, Petitioners have been careful to craft their insurance plans to exclude coverage for abortifacients, contraceptives, and sterilization. The Government, however, has made it impossible for them to continue that religious exercise. It has promulgated regulations forcing Petitioners to both (1) sign and submit documentation that authorizes, obligates, and incentivizes their insurance companies to deliver religiously objectionable coverage to Petitioners’ plan beneficiaries, and (2) maintain health plans and ongoing insurance relationships through which the objectionable coverage is provided. It is undisputed that taking either of these actions would violate Petitioners’ religious beliefs. It is equally undisputed that if Petitioners refuse to take these actions, they will be subject to substantial penalties. That is the very definition of a substantial burden on religious exercise under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.”
The first words in the U.S. Bill of Rights say: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
But under an existing law—the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA)—the government is authorized to compel someone to take an action that places a “substantial burden” on their religious exercise provided it advances a “compelling government interest” and does so by the “least restrictive means.”
Members of the Little Sisters of the Poor religious order out side the Supreme Court on March 23, 2016. (AP Photo)
In its brief to the Supreme Court, the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., summarized the law this way: “RFRA prohibits the Government from imposing a ‘substantial[] burden’ on ‘the exercise of Religion’ unless doing so ‘is the least restrictive means of furthering [a] compelling governmental interest.’”
In its brief, the archdiocese said: “the question presented here is whether the Government can force Petitioners to violate their sincerely-held religious beliefs under threat of massive penalties, without any evidence that such coercion is the least restrictive means to advance any compelling interest.”
But during Wednesday’s oral arguments in the case, in an exchange with attorney Paul Clement, Justice Sotomayor questioned whether it is in fact a “substantial” burden on someone’s religious exercise for the government to demand them to do something they believe will cause their soul to be “damned.”
According to the initial official version of the transcript of the oral argument posted on the Supreme Court’s website (which is “subject to final review”), the exchange went as follows:
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: “What I don’t understand, Mr. Clement, is when will any government law that someone claims burdens their practice ever be insubstantial? Because every believer that’s ever come before us, including the people in the military, are saying that my soul will be damned in some way. I’m not nay saying that that is a very substantial perceived personal burden by them. But if that’s always going to be substantial, how will we ever have a government that functions? How will we ever have anything that the government can demand people do in objecting—"
MR. CLEMENT: “Two things—"
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: "--that won’t be a problem?”
 http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/terence-p-jeffrey/justice-how-can-govt-function-if-it-cant-make-people-do-things-they-believe

My comments: Obama has Attacked the Little Sisters of the Poor, in order to break the back of Christianity by Forcing them or any Christian to do that which is against their Faith and Conscience. If he and the Democrats can accomplish this, then, there is Nothing the Government cannot require of any citizen--Nothing, then, is Sacred--As Nothing is Sacred to them except their godless, Socialist, Secular Humanist Religion--A man exalting Religion--Against God and His Word. 

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