An order of nuns that was in the national spotlight during the Obama years is due back in federal court this week, defending their right to live according to their religious beliefs.
In State of California v. Little Sisters of the Poor, California is suing to end a 2017 regulation that gives religious nonprofits – including the order of Catholic nuns – legal protection from the Obama-era HHS mandate that employers provide health insurance coverage for contraception and abortion-causing drugs.
The new regulation is a result of the 2016 Supreme Court decision in Zubik v. Burwell, which told HHS to revise its rules. Yet shortly after the regulation was passed, Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D-California) sued to take away the Little Sisters’ religious exemption, forcing the nuns back to court.
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments on Friday and decide whether the Little Sisters of the Poor can get back to their ministry: caring for the elderly poor.
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I fear powerful forces in the Church would take the side of that devil Becerra on the grounds that the nuns are “too rigid.”
Yes– and the irresponsible Church should hve excommunicated Becerra, Pelosi, and many other false “Catholics,” decades ago!
A descriptive caption on the photo would be informative. Who is man in picture? Context?
Thank you for your comment- the photo was sourced from the OneNewsNow story, but has been updated with the appropriate caption.
We would be crazy to re-elect this Attorney General. For the sake of the Little Sisters of the poor VOTE NOV. 6!!!
Once again, a militant pro-abort, anti-life politician who calls himself “Catholic” is allowed to persecute via the courts without any criticism from any bishop in California.
I think a common sense compromise could be reached here. Religious institutions such as the Little Sisters would have to tell prospective employees what is NOT covered in employee benefit plans. Then the employee can choose whether to work for the Sisters.
They are not too rigid. The good sisters know the damages artificial contraception (the birth control pill especially) causes to women’s bodies and to fish in our waterways from estrogen from the pill in our sewage, yet Becerra continues to support the unnatural. It will come back to haunt him, and haunt him it will. It is better to use Natural Family Planning for married couples when needed for serious conditions. The Godly way trains doctors to save both mother and child, not abort.