Obama Administration Moves Forward in Challenging Little Sisters

Catholic News Agency ^ | 9/9/14 | Adelaide Mena

[marshmallow]

The Obama Administration has announced that it will continue its legal fight against the Little Sisters of the Poor over the contraception mandate, which religious liberty advocates say is still unconscionable.

“Merely offering the Little Sisters a different way to violate their religion does not ease their conscience,” said Adele Keim, counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which is representing the Little Sisters of the Poor in court.

“Religious ministries in these cases serve tens of thousands of Americans, helping the poor and homeless and healing the sick. The Little Sisters of the Poor alone serve more than ten thousand of the elderly poor,” she observed in a Sept. 9 statement.

“These charities want to continue following their faith. They want to focus on ministry – such as sharing their faith and serving the poor – without worrying about the threat of massive IRS penalties.”

Keim responded to the federal government’s decision to move forward in a legal fight against the Little Sisters involving the controversial contraception mandate, which requires employers to offer health insurance covering contraception, sterilization and some drugs that can cause early abortions.

The announcement that the administration will continue with the case comes less than a month after it released updated rules for the application of the mandate.

The updated rules change the “accommodation” offered to non-profit religious groups that object to the mandate, including the Little Sisters of the Poor. The revised regulations say that such groups can notify the government of their objections, and the government will reach out to their insurer or a third-party administrator to provide the free coverage.

This is a slight change to the previous rule, which required religious groups to directly authorize the insurer or third-party administrator to offer the coverage they find immoral.

However, many non-profits......

[Tennessee Nana]

Elderly ladies are about a good match for Obama..

He cant go one on one with young guys..

He might break a finger nail...

[NorthMountain]

"Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State”

-Benito Mussolini -Barack 0bama

[GeronL]

Just because you won in the Supreme Court doesn’t mean the left will stop. Conservatives should take lessons from that.

[molson209]

Freedom , what’s that ?

[ConorMacNessa]

"L'etat, c'est moi!"

Stevens and Smith were sorely pressed, Doherty and Woods fought as men possessed. Obama and Clinton witnessed and lied, As American Heroes bled and died!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV) L

[Dan in Wichita]

Wow, talk about “bad optics”!

[Salvation]

Prayers for the Little Sisters of the Poor.

[Salvation]

[Ray76]

The muzzie hates Christians.

[Romulus]

The Little Sisters were at mass last Sunday to beg for their poor. We have them a nice check. God bless them.

[Robert A Cook PE]

But if he thought ISIS stood for Insured Sisters of Isolated Surgeons ....THAT he will attack!

[GeronL]

lol

[Joe Boucher]

this mookabooker sure is a POS mooselimb and anti Christian.