Supremes Set Date to Decide ‘What is Sin’
‘If this appeal is lost, government becomes head of every religious denomination’
(Washington Examiner) – The Supreme Court said Friday it would hear oral arguments on March 23 on a case that directly challenges Obamacare’s birth control mandate.
The justices will decide whether religious organizations such as charities and universities can completely opt out of providing birth control to their employees.
The case is called Zubik v. Burwell and is led by a charity run by Catholic nuns called Little Sisters of the Poor.
Obamacare requires that insurance cover certain preventive care measures such as birth control. However, religious groups such as universities and charities object to the requirement, saying it violates their beliefs.
So the administration came up with a compromise called accommodation, in which the insurer provides birth control to employees but the religious organization doesn’t pay for it.
Several organizations have chafed at the compromise, saying they still have a hand in providing birth control to employees. They instead want an exemption, which means that employees don’t get birth control at all under employer-sponsored plans.
The Supreme Court has taken up the law’s birth control mandate before. In 2014, the court ruled 5-4 in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby that religious, closely held and private companies can get the accommodation.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/supreme-court-to-hear-obamacare-birth-control-case-march-23/article/2581846
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