The following comes from a May 16 press release from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously protected the Little Sisters of the Poor from draconian government fines and recognized that the government does not need the Little Sisters to provide services such as the week after pill. The Court also noted the government finally admitted it could indeed meet its goals without involving the Little Sisters.
In its decision, the Supreme Court held that after its unprecedented call for supplemental briefing that the lower courts should again review the cases.
“All we have ever wanted to do is serve the neediest among us as if they were Christ himself,” said Sister Loraine Marie Maguire, Mother Provincial for the Little Sisters of the Poor. “We look forward to serving the elderly poor for another 175 years to come.”
“This is a game-changer,” said Mark Rienzi, senior counsel at The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. “The Court has accepted the government’s concession that it can get drugs to people without using the Little Sisters. The Court has eliminated all of the bad decisions from the lower courts. And the Court has forbidden the government from fining the Little Sisters even though they are refusing to bow to the government’s will. It is only a matter of time before the lower courts make this victory permanent.”
This is a good sign. The Supreme Court in it’s unanimity shows that even the liberal justices know the administration has overstepped its bounds.
This a battle for religious freedom and we must be prepared to continue the fight. The devil never sleeps, nor do his minions, especially those pushing the Culture of Death, as does this Obama administration.
This is good, but what a shame, that this problem is not over– the case must now be reviewed by a lower court! I feel so sorry for good religious orders like the Little Sisters of the Poor, because they are trying to do God’s work, in a SHAMEFULLY immoral land, such as the United States has become! MAKES ME SICK!!
Bravo for this SCOTUS decision and their most current smackdown of the wicked Obama Administration in this ongoing battle between the forces of light, Little Sisters of the Poor, and all the other valiant organizatons that serve the poor and also try to elevate the culture, in spite of the kind of tactics that this Administration always seems to champion, and the forces of this ultra noir Obama and company, including his most trusted stooge, Valerie Jarrett. It seems to be a decisive decision that will settle things, at least for now, but its only May; there are six months left until the Presidential election, and anything and everything will no doubt happen in the ongoing war between organized worldwide leftism and what’s left of our…
It is so sad, that religious orders, and other church-affiliated schools and groups (to include EWTN)– must be put through endless costly and stressful legal issues, with the courts! All because the Socialist “Hippie-Liberals” are EXTRENELY IMMORAL– and DEMAND THAT ALL AMERICA OBEY THEIR FILTHY WAY OF LIFE!!! When in the world will all of this end?? When will there be RESPECT for God, RESPECT for Judeo-Christian morality– and RESPECT for churches, and all church-affiliated schools and organizations?? How long will the Socialist “Hippie-Liberals” worship their GOLDEN CALF, of free sex, birth control, abortion, euthanasia, dope, rock music, feminism, gay “marriage,” and no morality, no responsibility?
I’m certain the SCOTUS couldn’t break the four-four tie. This means the lower rulings stand. Depending on the election results next November, there may be a majority five four in favor of the prior rulings.
The good sisters may want to seriously seek a compromise with which they can live. After all, the US is not a theocracy.
Praise be to the Lord Jesus and the intercession of St. Thomas Beckett and the Beckett Fund.