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Trump Administration Is Not Abandoning Religious Freedom

posted onApril 30, 2017
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Article snippet: Posted at 6:30 pm on April 29, 2017 by streiff Last Tuesday, this story appeared in the Wall Street Journal and caused some consternation among conservatives. One of the most unconscionable acts of the Obama administration in its bloody-minded monomaniacal drive to destroy health insurance in the United States was to make contraception a mandatory item in all health plans. Religious organizations, most famously the Catholic religious order Little Sisters of the Poor, were forced to have a health insurance plan that covered contraception even though the tenets of their religion made that unnecessary. The case in question is East Texas Baptist University v. Burwell: This request for more time has been portrayed by some as the Trump administration defending the Obamacare contraception mandate. The truth is a lot different than the “administration-in-disarray” story or the dire warnings of bad intentions on the part of the Trump administration. Axios.com interviewed Leonard Leo on Thursday. Leo is a rock solid conservative, Roman Catholic, an experienced litigator on religious freedom issues and an adviser to the administration on implementing Trump’s religious freedom executive order. Erick Erickson has more information at The Resurgent: According to Leo and Erickson what is happening is a much more significant play that can prevent a future administration from reviving this idiocy. By structuring a settlement the Trump administration can lock in case law on the... Link to the full article to read more

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