Posted on 01/28/2014 1:45:58 PM PST by Welchie25
Archbishop William E. Lori welcomed a Jan. 24 Supreme Court order that affirms an injunction blocking enforcement of a mandate requiring the Little Sisters of the Poor to provide contraceptive coverage in health insurance for their employees.
The order affirmed Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s Dec. 31 order in the case. It temporarily blocks the federal government from requiring the sisters and their co-plaintiffs at Christian Brothers Services from having to meet that requirement of the Affordable Care Act.
“This is certainly a preliminary victory, but I’d also say a significant victory,” said Archbishop Lori, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty. “The sisters have been very courageous and faithful in bringing forward the sanction.”
The Baltimore and Denver provinces of the Little Sisters of the Poor, along with co-plaintiffs, Christian Brothers Services and Christian Brothers Employee Benefits Trust, filed a lawsuit against the federal government last year, objecting to the mandate to provide employees insurance coverage for contraception, sterilization and abortion.
Archbishop Lori said the Little Sisters are highlighting what is at the heart of all the cases against the mandate, “namely it is an incursion against religious freedom.”
“It’s the government sorting out our ministries for us in ways that are highly inappropriate,” Archbishop Lori said. “We think that all our ministries are works of religion, and therefore deserving of an exemption from the HHS mandate.”
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Should read:
"blocking enforcement of a government mandate that would have required the Little Sisters of the Poor to provide infanticide drugs and contraceptives for their employees."
The PR team at the Catholic Review really needs to work harder to understand the framing of an issue.
They may not see the issue as we do, or if they do, they don’t want to stoke any fires by wording it the way we would.
Good correction!
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