Kathianne
07-19-2012, 06:11 AM
The Catholics and Protestants in 'my back yard'!
http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/238637-religious-colleges-file-sue-over-birth-control-mandate
Leading Protestant college sues over contraception mandate
By Elise Viebeck - 07/18/12 11:27 AM ET
Another prominent religious college has filed suit against the Obama administration over a policy meant to ease women's access to free birth control.
The suit from Ill.-based Wheaton College — dubbed the "Notre Dame" of Protestant higher education — states that the controversial policy violates the religious freedom of people who object to birth control or consider forms of it equal to abortion.
"Wheaton College and other distinctively Christian institutions are faced with a clear and present threat to our religious liberty" through the mandate, Wheaton President Philip Ryken said in a statement...
...Wheaton filed the suit Wednesday in District Court in the District of Columbia, joining 57 other plaintiffs who have undertaken similar legal action since the regulation was first announced.
A release noted D.C.'s Catholic University of America is assisting Wheaton in the suit, and that the effort represents the first Catholic-Protestant partnership against the mandate. Catholic University filed its own suit in late May alongside Notre Dame University and the Archdiocese of Washington.
"As the president of the national university of the Catholic Church, I am happy to express solidarity with our evangelical brothers from Wheaton College," said Catholic University President John Garvey.
http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/238637-religious-colleges-file-sue-over-birth-control-mandate
Leading Protestant college sues over contraception mandate
By Elise Viebeck - 07/18/12 11:27 AM ET
Another prominent religious college has filed suit against the Obama administration over a policy meant to ease women's access to free birth control.
The suit from Ill.-based Wheaton College — dubbed the "Notre Dame" of Protestant higher education — states that the controversial policy violates the religious freedom of people who object to birth control or consider forms of it equal to abortion.
"Wheaton College and other distinctively Christian institutions are faced with a clear and present threat to our religious liberty" through the mandate, Wheaton President Philip Ryken said in a statement...
...Wheaton filed the suit Wednesday in District Court in the District of Columbia, joining 57 other plaintiffs who have undertaken similar legal action since the regulation was first announced.
A release noted D.C.'s Catholic University of America is assisting Wheaton in the suit, and that the effort represents the first Catholic-Protestant partnership against the mandate. Catholic University filed its own suit in late May alongside Notre Dame University and the Archdiocese of Washington.
"As the president of the national university of the Catholic Church, I am happy to express solidarity with our evangelical brothers from Wheaton College," said Catholic University President John Garvey.