Notre Dame files religious liberty lawsuit related to HHS mandate
The University of Notre Dame filed a lawsuit Monday (May 21)
challenging the constitutionality of a federal regulation that requires
religious organizations to provide, pay for, and/or facilitate insurance
coverage for services that violate the teachings of the Catholic
Church.
Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of
Indiana, the lawsuit names as defendants Health and Human Services
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, Treasury
Secretary Timothy Geithner, and their respective departments.
The federal mandate requires Notre Dame and similar religious
organizations to provide in their insurance plans abortion-inducing
drugs, contraceptives and sterilization procedures, which are contrary
to Catholic teaching. It also authorizes the government to determine
which organizations are sufficiently “religious” to warrant an exemption
from the requirement.
Notre Dame’s lawsuit charges that these components of the
regulation are a violation of the religious liberties guaranteed by the
First Amendment, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and other federal
laws...
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