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Will Your Church Be Subject to a Conscience Tax?

There’s been quite a bit of talk recently about ObamaCare and the federal regulation requiring employer health care plans to pay for abortion inducing drugs, as well as contraception and sterilization. The good news is churches are exempt from this requirement. The bad news is church ministries and para-church organizations will be required to provide things like abortion-inducing drugs to their employees – even if it conflicts with the religious beliefs and teachings of the ministry. Any non-church ministry that provides services to people of other faiths (instead of just those who agree with their religious beliefs) will be subject to this requirement. Those who offer insurance that does not comply with ObamaCare will be fined $100 per employee per day. And those who drop insurance coverage altogether will be subjected to fines of approximately $2,000 per employee, per year. This is effectively a Conscience Tax.
Obviously, many faith-based schools, food pantries, hospitals, and other community service organizations are threatened by this disregard for religious freedom because they minister to everyone. Some commentators have opined that this isn’t a very big deal, and is just about making sure women have access to contraception. But if the federal government can force these ministries to act in a way that is completely contrary to their religious beliefs, they can tax all of us when we act according to our religious convictions by doing such things as refusing to participate in abortions, objecting to sexual immorality, or raising our children according to our faith.
Pastors need to be very aware of how this new mandate will affect all aspects of their ministry, as well as the lives and businesses of their parishioners. You can learn more about it here. And if you have any questions at all, please feel free to contact us here at ADF by logging on to SpeakUpMovement.org/church, or calling us at 1-800-TellADF.

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Rand Paul endorses Romney after rumored death threats against Ron Paul

By Mindy Allan

Alex Jones in an interview with Jim Tucker at the Bilderberg Group meeting in Washington believes there has been a direct threat to the life of Ron Paul. Conspiracy theorists are questioning the sudden announcement of Rand Paul to endorse Romney as a shake down by opposing forces on the Paul campaign. In Feb of 2012 it was rumored that Rand was supporting Romney, and he spoke about it then. In March of 2012 Rand Paul spoke out again against the union of himself and Romney. Now Rand Paul has made a statement that contradicts what he said in Feb & March. Was he threatened? The Ron Paul campaign has taken the political system and its control in to a chaotic spin, and now action needs to be taken so that it will stop! The speech Rand Paul gave in Austin a few weeks ago does not sound like someone who is giving up. So what, or who made him change his mind. Conspiracy theorists believe that there was a threat on the Paul family by the Federal Reserve, that made him change his mind. When it comes to family, many of us would choose family over anything. The Ron Paul campaign threatens the existence of NWO. Was a deal made? Did Rand Paul really have any options if it was a choice to go with the flow or die? Will Rand Paul be the vice president? Are the powers that be trying to rein in the Paul family. Control is everything! The Paul's may have been swayed for some reason, will the Ron Paul campaign sway the people to follow? If Ron Paul announces on national television that he is quitting, then most of the questions will be answered. The reason for needing Rand Paul as vice president would be to have the votes of the Ron Paul supporters. Time will tell if the conspiracy theorists are right.

Reality Check: Louisiana State Convention Implodes When Cops Attack Chairman

By Ben Swann - bio

Even though there is little question that Mitt Romney will be the Republican Presidential nominee in August, state Republican conventions continue to come unraveled. The latest example, the Louisiana State Convention where the chairman was tackled by cops and his artificial hip dislocated. What is going on here? Ben has the Reality Check you won't see anywhere else.

Has Barack Obama's ego endangered lives?

Barack Obama has been trying too hard to paint himself as a tough guy

By Peter Foster

Back in 2008, in the aftermath of defeat, Republicans probably banked on the fact that come 2012 they’d be able to attack the effete Harvard law don and community organiser Barack Obama for being weak on national security issues.
As it turns out, Big Bad Bo is a self-appointed, one-man hit squad, raining down righteous retaliation on America’s Islamist enemies from the drone-infested skies above Pakistan, Afghanistan and Somalia.
This week, therefore, senior Republicans have tried a different tack – hammering Mr Obama not for his record on national security, but for the endless leaks trumpeting top-secret successes, most of which seemed designed to paint Mr Obama as the steely tough guy.
First three Republican senators, including Marco Rubio in Florida (a Romney Veep possibility), published a joint Washington Post editorial accusing Mr Obama of authorising leaks that jeopardise informants' lives (or get them sent to jail for 33 years, like the Bin Laden informant Shakil Afridi), and make it harder to build ties with other intelligence agencies who don’t want to be splashed all over The New York Times.
Then today, Sen John McCain blasted the White House for the latest leak – a detailed account of how computer worms had been sent in to cripple the Iranian nuclear programme. The Senate Armed Services Committee will now hold an inquiry into the leaks.
“It makes the president look very decisive,” McCain said, accusing Obama of cynically using national security for political ends, “and it gives very little credit to the other men and women who make these things happen. This puts American lives in danger, revealing our most highly classified operations both in cyberwar and in drones.”
There is, of course, more than drop of electoral humbug in all this, but it is also absolutely true that some of the "leaking" has been eye-poppingly gratuitous – though the White House has the gall to deny this.
In fact, "leaking" is really the wrong word, since it implies that the information has come out in an unauthorised fashion, whereas much of the material appearing the New York Times and other sanctioned organs really amounts to a fly-on-the-wall documentary.
"President Obama, overseeing the regular Tuesday counterterrorism meeting of two dozen security officials in the White House Situation Room, took a moment to study the faces…” we read in a New York Times piece, as if it was the opening of a Tom Clancy novel.
The piece – sourced by “three dozen” current and former advisers, no less – recounts how Mr Obama, brow furrowed and with carefully annotated texts of Aquinas and Augustine in hand, personally reviews every one of his extra-judicial killings.
This is meant to make Mr Obama look admirable – just like all those documentaries about Mr Obama’s lone wolf decision go after Osama bin Laden – but increasingly he sounds, and looks, utterly egomaniacal.
The torrent of leaks is upsetting some people in the US military. In the last month I’ve had two separate conversations with serving US officers who were scathing about the fact that every time Mr Obama finds himself needing to bury bad news domestically, he lays down another national security smokescreen.
If it hasn’t already, this, I suspect, will soon become a turn-off for the public, who love a hero but can’t stand a braggart, particularly when they are trading on the bravery of other people.
Everyone knows that Obama has been surprisingly tough on national security. He should shut up about it already.

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Update: NDAA lawsuit victory

More great news on the NDAA lawsuit:

Federal Judge Kathryn Forrest just rejected the Obama administration's request that she reverse her ruling against indefinite detention.
Please send emails to Obama and the Senate right away to urge them to put and end to indefinite detention -- just click here.

In May Chris Hedges, RevolutionTruth, et al won their lawsuit asserting that indefinite detention violates the Constitution.
Obama asked for a reversal of that decision, which was just rejected.
More than 50,000 Demand Progress members have signed on as supporters of the lawsuit.
Now Obama needs to decide if he'll take his crusade against the Constitution to a higher court.
And the full Senate is taking up indefinite detention as it debates this year's NDAA later this month.
Please help fight indefinite detention by sending emails to Obama and the Senate right away -- just click here.

Obama signed last year's National Defense Authorization Act even though it included provisions which could let the military detain civilians indefinitely without a trial or charges.

Despite a valiant effort by opponents, the House retained indefinite detention when it passed the new NDAA last month.
The Senate will take this issue up soon, and President Obama can drop his defense of it in court.

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