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Appeals Court Denies Nuns Exemption from Contraception Mandate

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Legal Insurrection- Since the Supreme Court handed down its landmark Hobby Lobby decision last year, lawyers and activists on both sides of the Obamacare contraception mandate have been trying to outmaneuver each other on the technicalities of exemptions. Four appeals courts have ruled in favor of the government mandate, but until this week, one case served as both a holdout for religious freedom, and a thorn in the Obama Administration’s side.

The Little Sisters of the Poor, an order of Roman Catholic nuns, were granted a temporary exemption from the mandate by the Supreme Court last year. They then went before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in an attempt to extend that protection, but were denied. Today, the 10th Circuit upheld that ruling, saying that compliance requirements “do not substantially burden plaintiffs’ religious exercise or violate the plaintiffs’ First Amendment rights.” Now, the Little Sisters are faced with either complying with the mandate, or paying massive IRS penalties.  MORE

 

8 Comments on Appeals Court Denies Nuns Exemption from Contraception Mandate

  1. Perhaps the Sisters could get “creative” to comply with the mandate…

    …by making the service “available” somewhere in the desert or Alaska.

  2. of course wouldn’t logic dictate that if the supreme court ignores the constitutions amendment about religious freedom while it forces its dictates on the population that this encourages and almost demands of the population to also ignore the courts ruling because the courts powers derive from the document they just ignored to create their ruling?

    I cannot take any of our political or societal discourse seriously anymore.
    there is no logic or rule of law or morals.
    even the definitions of words change depending on the desired outcome by those using them.

    there is only the anarchy of the left.

    I have been forever changed by the evil callous behavior of the woman in the recent pp video and the msm response to such atrocities. I have no further regard for our fellow travelers on the left and they are already dead to me. this is a preview of what’s waiting for us in the fema camps which will be run by those very same people as the woman killing babies to make a buck. your life means nothing to them.

    definitions:
    useful idiots – those who champion and support the social programs that are killing this country.
    sheeple – those who know this and still pay taxes to such a lawless political mafia.

    the sheeple just keep funding their own destruction

    I don’t have an answer as to how to stop this

    but I would rather go fishing than work and pay taxes on my income to these people and continue to fund this evil any longer.

  3. Amendment I

    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.

    Whatever happened to that?^^^^

  4. In his classic work the Divine Comedy, Dante wrote: “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.” What is the moral crisis of your time?

    ht-Dynamic Catholic.com

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