HANCEVILLE, Alabama, February 9, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Lawyers for the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) say that the broadcasting network has taken the Obama administration to court over a mandate forcing Catholic employers to pay for birth control, sterilization, and abortifacient drugs.
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty announced that it had filed suit Thursday morning on behalf of EWTN, considered the largest religious media network in the world.
“The federal government cannot force people to violate their religion like this,” said Mark Rienzi, Senior Counsel at the Becket Fund and a constitutional law professor at the Catholic University of America. “Mother Angelica founded EWTN to spread the teachings of the Catholic Church—not to betray them.”
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About damn time…
(h/t Weasel Zippers)
Mega-Church Pastor Who Delivered Invocation At Obama’s Inauguration Says He’d “Go To Jail Rather Than Cave In To Government Mandate”…
Yay and Hooray!