In the ongoing backlash against Obamacare, two
evangelical Christian colleges—Grace College and Seminary in Indiana and
Biola University in California—have filed a federal lawsuit against the
administration.
The lawsuit is the latest to challenge the Obama
administration’s unconstitutional mandate that faith-based employers
provide insurance coverage for abortion-inducing drugs at no cost to employees regardless of religious or moral objections.
“Christian
colleges should remain free to operate according to their deeply held
beliefs. Punishing religious people and organizations for freely
exercising their faith is an assault on our most fundamental American
freedoms,” says Gregory S. Baylor, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF)
senior counsel.
As Baylor sees it, the mandate leaves religious employers with no real choice: You must either comply and abandon your religious freedom
and conscience, or resist and be taxed for your faith. He says every
American should know that a government with the power to do this to
anyone can do this—and worse—to everyone.
“The Obama
administration’s mandate forces us to act against our own doctrinal
statement, which upholds the sanctity of human life,” says Biola
University President Barry H. Corey. “It unjustly intrudes on our religious liberty
as protected under the U.S. Constitution and makes a mockery of our
attempts to live our lives according to our faith convictions,
time-honored and long protected.”
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