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A federal appeals court has struck down Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate, saying that it violates the religious liberty of business owners.
This is a great victory for religious liberty. The next stop is likely the Supreme Court itself.
Nothing is certain, but this could be a way to strike out one of the most harmful parts of Obamacare for millions of religious individuals throughout the country. Breitbart reports:
A divided appeals court panel sided Friday with Ohio business owners who challenged the birth control mandate under the new federal health care law.
The business owners are two brothers, Francis and Philip M. Gilardi, who own Freshway Foods and Freshway Logistics of Sidney, Ohio., and challenged the mandate on religious grounds. They say the mandate to provide contraceptive coverage would force them to violate their Roman Catholic beliefs and moral values by providing contraceptives such as the morning-after pill for their employees. The law already exempts houses of worship from the requirement.
The ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is one of several on the birth control issue, which likely will be resolved by the Supreme Court. There are at least three other rulings by federal appeals courts on the mandate: One sided with Oklahoma businesses; and two sided with the Obama administration in challenges brought by Pennsylvania and Michigan companies.
The Fist Amendment is very clear:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
The right of business owners to not be forced to violate their religious views should be obvious — fining anyone because they do not violate their conscience is unconstitutional.
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