Court prevents feds from enforcing abortion-drug mandate
A federal court on Friday grant a preliminary injunction to Hobby Lobby, preventing the Obama administration from enforcing the Obamacare abortion-drug mandate against the Christian-run company until...
View ArticleNow captains of faith blast Obama
A coalition of faith leaders – ranging from the president of the National Association of Evangelicals to an official for the Church of Scientology – reprimanded President Obama and his health care plan...
View ArticleIs Forced Religious Belief Coming to an Employer Near You?
By Jamelle BouieNovember 27th 201311:04 am followMore Stories by Jamelle Bouie Do corporations have religious beliefs? According to an arts and crafts chain, they do, and if the Supreme Court agrees,...
View ArticleMost-godly women on planet grapple with Obama
Members are not making public statements on their legal case now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court – they leave that to their attorneys. But they have prepared a video that reveals their...
View ArticleObama schooled in Christianity 101
“Christian doctrine states it is a sin for a Christian to enable or aid another in doing what the Christian believes to be sin,” according to a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court by a coalition of...
View ArticleWith its support of Hobby Lobby, JE Dunn joins cultural debate
For the owners of JE Dunn Construction of Kansas City, it’s clear: Providing insurance coverage for any birth control method that induces an abortion, as required by the Affordable Care Act, violates...
View ArticleObamacare mandate 'textbook' burden on religion
The case pending before the court involves Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Woods, both of which objected to the Obamacare mandate that demands employers provide – even in violation of their own faith –...
View ArticleNuns at war with Obama over freedom
The fight is over the abortifacient mandate in Obamacare – the requirement for employers to provide employees with abortion-inducing drugs. The nuns, the Little Sisters of the Poor, who run homes for...
View ArticleReligious case at Supreme Court could affect Obamacare and much more
WASHINGTON — A challenge to part of President Obama's healthcare law that hits the Supreme Court on Tuesday could lead to one of the most significant religious freedom rulings in the high court's...
View ArticleLamm: Hobby Lobby boycott
The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments from crafts store chain Hobby Lobby about the Affordable Healthcare Act's contraceptive mandate and how it violates the religious freedom of the company and...
View ArticleLowry: The war on Hobby Lobby
Not too long ago, the Greens of Oklahoma City were law-abiding people running an arts-and-crafts chain called Hobby Lobby. They weren’t disturbing the peace, or denying anyone his or her rights. They...
View ArticleAffordable Care Act and birth control: Can corporations assert religious rights?
President Obama’s Affordable Care Act comes under close scrutiny at the US Supreme Court on Tuesday, with the justices poised to examine whether the measure violates the religious rights of company...
View ArticleHobby Lobby & the war on religious liberty
Not too long ago, the Greens of Oklahoma City were law-abiding people running an arts-and-crafts chain called Hobby Lobby. They weren’t disturbing the peace, or denying anyone his or her rights. They...
View ArticleSupreme Court hears crucial Obamacare challenge
Hobby Lobby Stores and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corporation both claim that the Affordable Care Act violates their religious freedoms guaranteed under the First Amendment and under a 1993 federal...
View ArticleHobby Lobby gets day in Supreme Court
That’s the question up before the U.S. Supreme Court in the Hobby Lobby and Conestoga cases, which will have oral arguments March 25. The dispute has been raised in literally dozens of cases across the...
View ArticleHobby Lobby Ruling Cuts Into Contraceptive Mandate
4:35 PM ET Partner content from In a 5-4 decision Monday, the Supreme Court allowed a key exemption to the health law's contraception coverage requirements when it ruled that closely held for-profit...
View ArticleFAQ: High Court's Hobby Lobby Ruling Cuts Into Contraceptive Mandate
In a 5-4 decision Monday, the Supreme Court allowed a key exemption to the health law’s contraception coverage requirements when it ruled that closely held, for-profit businesses could assert a...
View ArticleHobby Lobby's religious rights upheld against Obamacare
In a close call of 5-4, the Supreme Court in favor of Hobby Lobby's conviction to opt out of Obamacare's requirement to provide contraceptives, specifically the abortion-inducing drugs, according to...
View ArticleObama offers nuns 'another way to violate their religion'
The Obama administration appears to be going out of its way to force the Catholic Little Sisters of the Poor to provide birth control, including abortion-causing drugs, in its health insurance plans,...
View ArticleWhat’s At Stake For Birth Control In Upcoming SCOTUS Decision
One of the most watched cases before the Supreme Court this term will may turn on the question of religious freedom. But it will also likely determine how women will be able to access a key provision...
View ArticleCouple fights Obamacare over birth control
So what would give the government the authority to order anyone else to do that? The question could be answered in a case before the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Missouri state Rep. Paul Wieland,...
View ArticleObamacare decision a 'rebuke' to president
“This is a huge win for people of [conscience] and a stern rebuke for Obama and his HHS secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, who have repeatedly overstepped their authority and attempted to strip Americans of...
View Article6 Questions About Contraception Coverage And The Supreme Court
One of the most watched issues before the Supreme Court this term will may turn on the question of religious freedom. But it will also likely determine how women will be able to access a key provision...
View ArticleFeds still clinging to abortifacients
The Supreme Court has ruled that the federal tax-and-spend health program could not require all employers to do that, but the to emphasize providing such products for everyone, whether they want them...
View ArticleObama 'using federal law to target Christians'
Now a new lawsuit has been filed arguing that the Obama administration is using the law to attack groups of faith that do not support the White House agenda of contraception and abortion for all. “On...
View ArticleOK Federal Delegation on Hobby Lobby SCOTUS Decision (Oklahoma Republican Party)
(Source: Oklahoma Republican Party) Sen. Inhofe U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) released the following statement after the Supreme Court upheld the religious liberties of closely-held companies in...
View ArticleSupreme Court rules on 'Hobby Lobby' vs. Obamacare
The decision in the case brought by Hobby Lobby, an Oklahoma-based chain with about 13,000 employees, and Conestoga Wood Specialties, a Pennsylvania cabinet maker, was about the government’s required...
View ArticleDoes Religious Freedom Trump Other Constitutional Rights?
President Obama quipped the other night that he is so close to Vice President Biden that they can't buy a pizza in Indiana--an obvious reference to Indiana's religious freedom law permitting businesses...
View ArticleSupreme Court takes up Obamacare’s contraception dispute
WASHINGTON The embattled health care law dubbed Obamacare will be returning to the Supreme Court, this time for a decision on whether employers must cover contraception in their insurance plans. The...
View ArticleBlack, Bachmann, Ellmers, Foxx, Jenkins, Lummis, McMorris Rodgers, Miller...
(Source: Diane Black) Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Diane Black (R-TN-06), author of H.R. 940, the Health Care Conscience Rights Act, and Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-MN-06), Virginia Foxx (R-NC-05),...
View ArticleRevised Obamacare contraception rule still violates religious beliefs, says...
Healthcare law changes make it easier for religious organizations to deny employees birth control but most forms must still be covered at no cost ...
View ArticleWhat Next Year’s Attack on Obamacare Will Look Like
Houses of worship don’t have to offer employees contraceptive coverage. But other religious employers do. Supreme Court, here we come. As the Supreme Court returns for another term, it has some...
View ArticleCoats: Religious Freedom Remains Under Attack Despite Hobby Lobby Decision...
(Source: Daniel Coats) "Requiring faith-based institutions and businesses to betray the fundamental tenants of their beliefs is, I believe, unconstitutional." Monday, July 7, 2014 Coats: Religious...
View ArticleACRU: Hobby Lobby Ruling Is a 'Win for Religious Liberty' (American Civil...
(Source: American Civil Rights Union) ObamaCare's abortifacient mandate violated Religious Freedom Restoration Act, ACRU's brief said. WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 30, 2014) ---- In a 5-4 decision, the U.S....
View ArticleTexas Attorney General Greg Abbott praises Hobby Lobby ruling by Supreme Court
Texas Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott yesterday Monday, June 30 issued a statement praising the United States Supreme Court decision in the landmark Hobby Lobby case as...
View ArticleINHOFE STATEMENT ON SUPREME COURT HEARING ORAL ARGUMENTS OF HOBBY LOBBY CASE...
(Source: James M Inhofe) Tuesday, March 25, 2014 WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) released the following statement regarding the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments today in the case...
View ArticleInhofe Statement on Supreme Court Hearing Oral Arguments of Hobby Lobby Case...
(Source: Oklahoma Republican Party) WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) released the following statement regarding the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments today in the case of Sebelius...
View ArticleJudge lands another blow against Obamacare
The ruling comes from U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker in the case brought by the company Autocam, a maker of medical devices. He ordered that the federal government is “permanently enjoined” from...
View ArticleSupreme Court takes up Obamacare’s contraception dispute
WASHINGTON — The embattled health care law dubbed Obamacare will be returning to the Supreme Court, this time for a decision on whether employers must cover contraception in their insurance plans. The...
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