Wednesday, March 23, 2016

LIBERTY COUNSEL 03/23/2016 LEGAL CHALLENGE TO OBAMA'S MANDATE

ObamaCare's assault on our First Amendment rights and the free exercise rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act was on trial today before the Supreme Court.

As part of the High Court's consideration of this case, Liberty Counsel filed a powerful amicus brief on behalf of Little Sisters of the Poor to strengthen their argument.

Please see my important update below – Mat.

 
  Conservatives,

Today, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in the Little Sisters of the Poor's legal challenge to the ObamaCare requirement that non-church religious organizations must provide contraceptive and abortion-inducing drugs and devices at no cost to employees. 

During the 90-minute hearing, the Supreme Court also heard arguments on six other cases representing Christian colleges, ministries, and businesses.

The Little Sisters, a group of nuns dedicated to serving the elderly poor, argues that the ObamaCare mandate violates their free exercise rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).
 
The Little Sisters of the Poor and many other religious nonprofit organizations cannot and will not participate in killing innocent children. The federal government should never force Christian ministries to violate their faith. The Obama Administration's HHS mandate compels the Little Sisters of the Poor to act against their sincerely held religious beliefs or face crippling fines that would end their ministry. The Court must reaffirm America's historic commitment to religious liberty, or it will restrict our free exercise for decades to come.

Following the hearing, the Catholic Association issued this statement, "Justice Kennedy and Chief Justice Roberts suggested that the government was 'hijacking' the healthcare plan of the Little Sisters of the Poor to advance its agenda. That's exactly what they are doing."

+ + Liberty Counsel takes every opportunity to confront the illegal mandates in ObamaCare!

Liberty Counsel filed the first private lawsuit against ObamaCare the day it was signed into law in 2010 and we have continued our efforts to have this unconstitutional law stricken from the policies of our nation through numerous legal challenges and intense calls for congressional defunding, repeal, and replacement.


ObamaCare is the biggest funding of abortion in American history. The "abortion mandate" directly collides with religious freedom and rights of conscience.
 
Fighting on behalf of our religious liberties is among the core reasons why Liberty Counsel exists. Liberty Counsel is uniquely equipped, to fight intense battles against today's unprecedented federal overreaches and the subversion of our God-given liberties!

Lee S, will you stand with us today? Your gift of any amount will help us engage deep-pocketed adversaries that are usurping our religious liberty and right of conscience in order to advance a misguided secularist agenda.

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+ + Why President Obama's recent SCOTUS nomination must be stopped!

The overtly partisan passage of ObamaCare opened the floodgates for many of the Obama administration's assaults on our First Amendment rights. With the law's passage, we saw that the Obama administration intended to advance its radical agenda at the expense of constitutional principles.

Today's case again brings into focus the importance of replacing Justice Scalia with a Justice who will adhere to the original meaning of the Constitution. If the Court splits 4-4, then there is no final decision. That would mean the Christian groups, including the Little Sisters of the Poor, will in essence lose. In the event the Court evenly splits, the Justices could also decide to rehear the cases when Justice Scalia's seat is filled.


Liberty Counsel and our sister organization, Liberty Counsel Action, strongly oppose President Obama's nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. We support efforts to defeat the nomination of any potential Justice who will sway the Court to the Left.

Please pray for our nation and continue to pray for the 2016 general election!

God bless you!

Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel

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