A Landmark Religious Liberty Case
By Mike McManus
March 27, 2014
In a landmark case this week the Supreme Court appeared narrowly supportive of objections by two family-owned businesses on religious grounds to being forced to give employees “morning after pills” that abort a growing embryo. Of Obamacare’s mandate to offer 20 different forms of birth control, the companies provide 16, opposing only Plan B-type drugs that cause abortion.
That mandate has sparked scores of federal suits by Catholic dioceses, Southern Baptists, Catholic University, Wheaton College and for-profit companies.
The first to reach the Supreme Court were the cases of Hobby Lobby, a company with 561 stores owned by a Catholic couple, David and Barbara Green, and Conestoga Wood Specialties, a cabinet-making firm owned by a Mennonite family.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By Mike McManus
March 27, 2014
In a landmark case this week the Supreme Court appeared narrowly supportive of objections by two family-owned businesses on religious grounds to being forced to give employees “morning after pills” that abort a growing embryo. Of Obamacare’s mandate to offer 20 different forms of birth control, the companies provide 16, opposing only Plan B-type drugs that cause abortion.
That mandate has sparked scores of federal suits by Catholic dioceses, Southern Baptists, Catholic University, Wheaton College and for-profit companies.
The first to reach the Supreme Court were the cases of Hobby Lobby, a company with 561 stores owned by a Catholic couple, David and Barbara Green, and Conestoga Wood Specialties, a cabinet-making firm owned by a Mennonite family.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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