The Supreme Court slaps down the Obama administrations war on women. The New Years Eve emergency injunction protecting the Little Sisters of the Poor from ObamaCares birth-control mandate was unusual enough. The Supreme Court rarely grants such relief, and the order was issued by liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor. But the permanent stay pending appeal, issued late Friday by the full Supreme Court with no recorded dissent, was rarer still—and a rebuke to the Obama Administrations bullying conception of religious liberty. The Little Sisters sued because they believe the form they must sign to supposedly exempt themselves from the mandate instructs others to provide contraceptives and abortifacients in their name, and thus violates their faith and the First Amendment. Nearly all of the lower courts that are adjudicating the 91 lawsuits challenging the rule gave religious organizations a reprieve, but the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals did not for the Little Sisters. The Justice Department also argued that this order of Catholic nuns who run a Colorado nursing home and hospice should be forced to comply. You might call it a war on religiously devout women. The High Courts order bars the Administration from imposing fines on any nonprofit that declares a religious identity and objects to the mandate. It doesnt go to the merits or relate to the separate contraceptive mandate cases that the Court will hear in March. Yet the fact that such an extraordinary intervention was necessary speaks volumes about the Administrations ideological intolerance.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 01:27:17 +0000
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