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43 Catholic Institutions File Suit to Block Obama's Forced Birth Control Coverage
But the right to such services does not authorize the Government to force the University of Notre Dame (“Notre Dame”) to violate its own conscience by making it provide, pay for, and/or facilitate those services to others, contrary to itssincerely held religious beliefs. …
If the Government can force religious institutions to violate their beliefs in such a manner, there is no apparent limit to the Government’s power. Such an oppression of religious freedom violates Notre Dame’s clearly established constitutional and statutory rights.
The First Amendment also prohibits the Government from becoming excessively entangled in religious affairs and from interfering with a religious institution’s internal decisions concerning the organization’s religious structure, ministers, or doctrine. The U.S. Government Mandate tramples all of these rights.
- Internal Obama Regime Emails Reveal Deliberate Targeting Of Catholics With Contraceptive Mandate
I Will Crush Them Shocker, huh? Next Monday I will file an amicus brief in Zubik v. Burwell, the contraceptive mandate case that Ed Whelan has so thoroughly discussed in this space this week. My brief will criticize the Administration for adopting an...
- 10th Circuit To Little Sisters Of The Poor: Comply With Contraception Mandate
From the Beckett Fund: Moments ago, in a departure from the U.S. Supreme Court’s protection of the Little Sisters of the Poorlast year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled that the Little Sisters must comply with the government’s...
- Catholic Church Files Lawsuit: Obama Administration Is Engaged In “a Conscious Political Strategy To Marginalize And Delegitimize Catholic Views, Holding Them Up For Ridicule On National Stage”…
From CNS: The Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., is arguing in a new lawsuit that the Obama administration is engaged in a “conscious political strategy to marginalize and delegitimize” Catholic “religious views on contraception by...
- Hobby Lobby Will Defy Federal Mandate That They Provide Ru-486 Instant Abortion Pills To Their Employees As Part Of Their Health Plan
From AP: WASHINGTON (AP) — An attorney for Hobby Lobby Stores said Thursday that the arts and crafts chain plans to defy a federal mandate requiring it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill, despite risking...
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Catholic Bishops Nail 95 Theses To Obama's Door - Urge Civil Disobedience From Laura at Ace of Spades:We missed this one two weeks ago, during Dogtroversy. But it's kind of a big deal. CHICAGO, April 17, 2012— In an audacious rebuke to President...
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43 Catholic Institutions File Suit to Block Obama's Forced Birth Control Coverage
From Ace of Spades:
Finally.
This lawsuit is about one of America’s most cherished freedoms: the freedom to practice one’s religion without government interference. It is not about whether people have a right to abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization, and contraception.
Those services are, and will continue to be, freely available in the United States, and nothing prevents the Government itself from making them more widely available.But the right to such services does not authorize the Government to force the University of Notre Dame (“Notre Dame”) to violate its own conscience by making it provide, pay for, and/or facilitate those services to others, contrary to itssincerely held religious beliefs. …
If the Government can force religious institutions to violate their beliefs in such a manner, there is no apparent limit to the Government’s power. Such an oppression of religious freedom violates Notre Dame’s clearly established constitutional and statutory rights.
The First Amendment also prohibits the Government from becoming excessively entangled in religious affairs and from interfering with a religious institution’s internal decisions concerning the organization’s religious structure, ministers, or doctrine. The U.S. Government Mandate tramples all of these rights.
- Internal Obama Regime Emails Reveal Deliberate Targeting Of Catholics With Contraceptive Mandate
I Will Crush Them Shocker, huh? Next Monday I will file an amicus brief in Zubik v. Burwell, the contraceptive mandate case that Ed Whelan has so thoroughly discussed in this space this week. My brief will criticize the Administration for adopting an...
- 10th Circuit To Little Sisters Of The Poor: Comply With Contraception Mandate
From the Beckett Fund: Moments ago, in a departure from the U.S. Supreme Court’s protection of the Little Sisters of the Poorlast year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled that the Little Sisters must comply with the government’s...
- Catholic Church Files Lawsuit: Obama Administration Is Engaged In “a Conscious Political Strategy To Marginalize And Delegitimize Catholic Views, Holding Them Up For Ridicule On National Stage”…
From CNS: The Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., is arguing in a new lawsuit that the Obama administration is engaged in a “conscious political strategy to marginalize and delegitimize” Catholic “religious views on contraception by...
- Hobby Lobby Will Defy Federal Mandate That They Provide Ru-486 Instant Abortion Pills To Their Employees As Part Of Their Health Plan
From AP: WASHINGTON (AP) — An attorney for Hobby Lobby Stores said Thursday that the arts and crafts chain plans to defy a federal mandate requiring it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill, despite risking...
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Catholic Bishops Nail 95 Theses To Obama's Door - Urge Civil Disobedience From Laura at Ace of Spades:We missed this one two weeks ago, during Dogtroversy. But it's kind of a big deal. CHICAGO, April 17, 2012— In an audacious rebuke to President...