WND - Feds Admit ObamaCare Mandate 'A Burden'

By Bob Unruh, WND.com

Attorneys fighting Obamacare’s contraception mandate on behalf of a Missouri company say a court should issue an injunction preventing its application because the government already has determined that the mandate is a “burden” on religious rights.

“Indeed, defendant [Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen] Sebelius herself has publicly acknowledged that the mandate raises religious concerns,” said a new court filing from the the American Center for Law and Justice. . . .

A federal judge in Denver recently granted such a motion for a Denver company, and in a Michigan dispute, the government itself agreed not to enforce its requirements until a court case there is finished.

“We’re asking the court to intervene right now because in a very short time our client, Frank O’Brien, will be faced with a choice no government has the right to impose on him: abandon his business, or abandon his beliefs,” said Francis J. Manion, senior counsel of the ACLJ, who is representing O’Brien. . . .

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