Luke 17:28-30 “Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built” but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
A Catholic organization that was being threatened with fines by the IRS because they were not providing insurance coverage including contraception has been given a reprieve by the Supreme Court.
The court granted Michigan Catholic Conference their request for an exemption for religious regions against the mandate by the Department of Health and Human Services. The ruling means that the previous decision against the group was vacated and the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit must consider the Hobby Lobby decision in reviewing the case.
A counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty praised the ruling in a message to the Christian Post.
“That’s what is so bizarre about the government’s position,” said Mark Rienzi a senior counsel with the Becket Fund.
“The government says they are not a ‘religious employer’ and therefore they have to sign forms to authorize and require other people to give out contraceptives for them. That makes no sense at all.”
Rienzi said the Court will likely have to take up one of these cases in the future.
I think that the Court will continue the path it has set in the long string of mandate cases to date … and it will protect religious ministries from this mandate,” said Rienzi.
“This whole fight is unnecessary and silly. Obviously the government can distribute contraceptives without the forced involvement of the Catholic Church and its ministries. The government can put a man on the moon — they can distribute pills without religious ministries.”
The group is the sixth the justices have sided with on the issue since December 2013.
