Domino's founder sues feds over health care law
DETROIT (AP) - The founder of Domino's Pizza is suing the federal government over mandatory contraception coverage in the health care law.
Tom Monaghan, a devout Roman Catholic, says contraception isn't health care but a "gravely immoral" practice.
He filed a lawsuit Friday in federal court. It also lists as a plaintiff Domino's Farms, a Michigan office park complex that Monaghan owns.
Monaghan offers health insurance that excludes contraception and abortion for employees. The new federal law requires employers to offer insurance including contraception coverage or risk fines.
Monaghan says the law violates his rights, and is asking a judge to strike down the mandate. There are similar lawsuits pending nationwide.
A message left Saturday for Monaghan's attorney, Richard Thompson, was not immediately returned.
The government says the contraception mandate benefits women.
Tom Monaghan, a devout Roman Catholic, says contraception isn't health care but a "gravely immoral" practice.
He filed a lawsuit Friday in federal court. It also lists as a plaintiff Domino's Farms, a Michigan office park complex that Monaghan owns.
Monaghan offers health insurance that excludes contraception and abortion for employees. The new federal law requires employers to offer insurance including contraception coverage or risk fines.
Monaghan says the law violates his rights, and is asking a judge to strike down the mandate. There are similar lawsuits pending nationwide.
A message left Saturday for Monaghan's attorney, Richard Thompson, was not immediately returned.
The government says the contraception mandate benefits women.
Tom Monaghan should keep his religion in his house and his bedroom and keep his nose out of others homes and bedrooms. Just because he is a Roman Catholic does not mean others are. We all have our own beliefs and I do not try to push mine on others. The Catholics stand on contraception is stupid, unhealthy and way out of sinc with today. They need to pay more attention of their pedophile priests and less about others beliefs.
Our Country was founded on separation of Church and State - was it not, or don't they even teach that in school anymore?
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In consideration that this is a law for the entire US, then ones faith should not be considered as above all others. If "contraception" offends you, then naturally you do not partake in it. But one does not have a right to deny others based upon their own individual religious belief. The law does not force anyone to engage in this, it only allows the individual to decide for themselves.
He should focus on making edible pizzas
I guess he doesn't think putting pork products on his pizzas is a "gravely immoral" act even though the Bible is pretty explicit about that.Â
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Funny, I don't remember anything in the Bible about contraceptives.Â
 @lakeview Whats funny is is specifically states not to block the seed. Maybe you should read it again?
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The regulations in Scripture against eating pork are found in the Mosaic Law, given to the nation of Israel by Moses as part of the Old Covenant. The Old Covenant was only binding on Israel. It was intended to set Israel apart from the Gentile world. Isaiah was speaking to Israel in 66:17, so God's admonishment was directed to Jews who were willingly violating the Old Covenant law.
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Today, believers in Jesus Christ are saved by the grace found in the New Covenant, and as Paul taught, believers are not bound by the regulations of the Law found in the Old Covenant:
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Rom. 6:14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
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Rom. 7:4 Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.
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Rom. 7:6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.
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Col. 2:16 Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day â
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Col. 2:17 things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ. Â
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Therefore, Gentiles and those who believe in Jesus Christ are free to consume pork or anything God has made. It is not a sin, because the restrictions found in the Old Covenant apply only to Israel apart from the grace of the New Covenant.
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If youâre going to spread hate, try to stay within your own ignorance.
 @komoispropaganda  @lakeview Nothing like quoting the portions of the bible written by someone who wasn't even born when Jesus walked the earth. Paul's teachings are nothing more than one man's opinions based on his time and place and aren't necessarily relevant to today's time and place. The whole Christian bible was put together by the Council of Nicea about 325 AD and none of it was written prior to 70 AD by which time, I'd guess all the apostles were dead, considering the life expectancy in those days. The bishops of the various branches of Christianity at the time, and there were at least nine, couldn't agree on anything until the emperor Constantine converted to Christianity and called them all together to force them to agree on one dogma. Couldn't have been much different than all the bickering going on in Congress these days.
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Speaking of hate, your admonishment to lakeview steps over the boundary. There was no 'hate' directed toward anyone, only a difference of opinion. Yet it is you who raised the issue of hate and directed it toward another. If you are going to promote the life of Christ, perhaps you need to review your faith a little more on what Christ said.
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BTW, Please also reflect that Christ was born a Jew, lived a life as a Jew, and died as a Jew. He did come to fulfill the old law, and to promote the new law, aside with remaining Jewish.