Contents tagged with conscience rights
Filed in: US Constitution | by Jay Sekulow | 2:22 PM Apr. 13, 2012
A Catholic Call to Defend Religious Freedom
As you may recall, we're involved in a major federal lawsuit - defending a Catholic business owner in Missouri who is challenging the Obama Administration's HHS mandate, which requires employers to purchase health insurance for their employees that includes coverage for contraceptives, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs. We represent Frank R. O'Brien and O'Brien Industrial Holdings, LLC, based in St. Louis. Our lawsuit, which marks the first legal challenge to the HHS mandate from a pri Continue Reading...
Filed in: ObamaCare | by Jay Sekulow | 1:28 PM Feb. 24, 2012
Obama's Violation of Religious Liberty Facing More Challenges
The mandate and compromise by the Obama Administration's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are facing new challenges each day. The latest legal challenge comes from seven states and a host of organizations - including two private citizens, two religious non-profit organizations and a Catholic school. They have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of HHS regulations, which we have contended from the very start violate the free exercise of religion and the conscie Continue Reading...
Filed in: ObamaCare | by Jay Sekulow | 10:55 AM Feb. 22, 2012
70,000 Americans Urge Reversal of HHS Regs
The opposition to the mandate and compromise put in place by the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) continues to grow as pressure continues to be applied to HHS Secretary Sebelius. We have sent a detailed legal analysis to Secretary Sebelius on behalf of nearly 70,000 Americans - urging the Secretary to reverse the troubling regulations put in place - measures that violate religious liberty and the conscience rights of millions of Americans. We've been reporting in detail on the p Continue Reading...
Filed in: ObamaCare | by Jay Sekulow | 3:28 PM Feb. 16, 2012
Pro-Abortion Fingerprints on HHS Mandate
Here's a shocker. In drafting the infamous contraception regulation, and the subsequent compromise, there apparently was little or no input from the pro-life community, but plenty of guidance from the pro-abortion crowd. Amazing. As you know, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued its mandate, requiring religious institutions, such as religious schools and hospitals, to include abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization, and contraception in their insurance policies for employees. Continue Reading...
Filed in: ObamaCare | by Jay Sekulow | 12:01 PM Feb. 14, 2012
Debate Over Obama Mandate & Compromise Intensifies
The American people are watching, and they don't like what they see. The issue: President Obama's mandate and follow-up compromise targeting people of faith - policies that violate religious liberty and the conscience rights of millions of Americans. We've been extremely active in calling attention to this problematic development. Our legal team has been writing about this issue for weeks now. We've been discussing this daily on our radio broadcast. We've heard from nearly 60,000 people who hav Continue Reading...
