When Religion Is Ahead Of The Constitution

We saw it back when Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refused to accept the marriage license from a gay couple not it is a District Attorney who is refusing to prosecute domestic violence case against a gay couple. Also under a proposed rule from HHS insurance companies could drop you and healthcare providers could refuse to treat you

Attorneys ask for DA’s suspension
Manchester Times
By Erin McCullough
July 31, 2019

A Nashville-based attorney, acting on behalf of hundreds of additional lawyers, has asked The Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility to suspend Coffee County District Attorney Craig Northcott’s law license.

Sunny Eaton is one of the more than 300 lawyers who signed the original complaint filed against Northcott in June, after Northcott’s anti-Muslim comments circulated on social media and a video of Northcott making anti-LGBT statements surfaced.

“It’s very clear impropriety,” Eaton said of the two instances. “Frankly, his statements were reprehensible, and they fly in the face of what attorneys in Tennessee stand for.”

What has gotten 300 attorneys up in a tissy?

While the original complaint was based on the “appearance of impropriety” from the video of Northcott making anti-LGBT comments, Eaton said Northcott’s written statement proved he had “every intention of being defiant of the law and he has every intention of using his office for discriminatory purposes.”

“That can’t be allowed,” Eaton said.

Based on his written statement, Eaton said Northcott admitted to “making prosecutorial choices based on discriminatory purposes based on bias against particular groups that he arbitrarily has problems with.”

Pink News put it this way…

Coffee County District Attorney Craig Northcott is currently under Supreme Court investigation after a video surfaced of him making the homophobic comments at a conference.

“The social engineers on the Supreme Court decided that we now have homosexual marriage,” he said in the video. “I disagree with it, [so] what do I do with domestic assaults?

“On the one hand, I don’t prosecute them because I don’t recognise it as marriage. On the other hand, if I don’t prosecute him, then the sinner, the immoral guy, gets less punishment. What do you do?

“I said there’s no marriage to protect, so I don’t prosecute as domestic [violence], and that is one of many decisions like that that you face.”

In other words it is the Kim Davis case all over again.

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HHS’s Proposed Changes to Non-Discrimination Regulations Under ACA Section 1557
Kaiser Family Foundation
By MaryBeth Musumeci, Jennifer Kates, Lindsey Dawson, Alina Salganicoff, Laurie Sobel, and Samantha Artiga July 01, 2019

On June 14, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed what it describes as “substantial revisions” to its regulations implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act. Section 1557 prohibits discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex, age, and disability in health programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance. Notably, it is the first federal civil rights law to prohibit discrimination in health care based on sex. The 60-day public comment period on the proposed changes closes on August 13, 2019. The proposal cannot change Section 1557’s protections in the law enacted by Congress but would significantly narrow the scope of the existing HHS implementing regulations, if finalized, by:

• Eliminating the general prohibition on discrimination based on gender identity, as well as specific health insurance coverage protections for transgender individuals;
• Adopting blanket abortion and religious freedom exemptions for health care providers;
• Eliminating the provision preventing health insurers from varying benefits in ways that discriminate against certain groups, such as people with HIV or LGBTQ people;
• Weakening protections that provide access to interpretation and translation services for individuals with limited English proficiency;
• Eliminating provisions affirming the right of private individuals to challenge alleged violations of § 1557 in court and to obtain money damages, as well as requirements for covered entities to provide non-discrimination notices and grievance procedures;
• Narrowing the reach of the regulations by only covering specific activities that receive federal funding, but not other operations, of health insurers that are not “principally engaged in the business of providing health care,” and no longer applying the regulations to all HHS-administered programs;

HHS also requests comment on whether to change certain provisions intended to ensure equal access for people with disabilities. It also proposes eliminating prohibitions on discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation in 10 other Medicaid, private insurance, and education program regulations outside Section 1557. If finalized, HHS’s proposed changes would substantially narrow, and in many cases entirely eliminate, the regulations’ existing protections against discrimination in meaningful ways.

Introduction
On June 14, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed what it describes as “substantial revisions”1 to regulations implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).2 Section 1557 prohibits discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex, age, and disability in health programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance.3 For example, Section 1557 applies to health care providers, such as physicians’ practices, hospitals, nursing homes, and organ procurement centers that receive federal funds such as Medicare (excluding Part B4) or Medicaid payments; health-related education and research programs; state Medicaid, CHIP, and public health agencies; health insurance issuers and third-party administrators; state-based Marketplaces; and health programs administered by HHS.5 This issue brief summarizes and considers the implications of HHS’s proposed regulations and includes tables that provide side-by-side comparisons with legal citations to the current and proposed provisions of HHS’s Section 1557 regulations (Table 1) and HHS’s proposed changes to other regulations, separate from Section 1557 (Table 2). The 60-day public comment period on all of the proposed changes closes on August 13, 2019.

They go on to list the reason HHS says these rule changes are needed.

What we need you to do is submit your comments against this horrible attack on us.

Folks this will strip your healthcare from your insurance. If this passes insurance companies can refuse to insure you for any medical procedures, we seen this in the past. Insurance companies have said that diseases like diabetes, heart problems, and even cancer were cause by us taking our hormones.

It will also allow any healthcare providers to refuse to treat you! Back in ‘95 Tyra Hunter was refused treatment because she was trans. Robert Eads in 1999 died of ovarian cancer because no doctor work treat him. Then in 2013 EMTs let Shaun Smith die of diabetic shock because she was trans.

It can happen to you, all it takes is a medical emergency or a traffic accidents.

Here are some FAQs from NCTE

Please submit you comment to HHS by August 13.

You may submit electronic comments at http://www.regulations.gov by searching for the Docket ID number HHS-OCR-2019-0007