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| Newlands, owners of Hercules Industries |
In the first-ever judicial order
blocking enforcement of the Obama administration’s abortion pill mandate, God
has given Colorado’s family-owned Hercules Industries a critical legal victory
– one with enormous implications for your civil liberties and the religious
freedom of people like you all over America.
Under the health care law, family business owners and believers across the
country are being forced by this mandate to provide insurance coverage for
abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization, and contraception – even if doing so
compels them to violate their deepest religious and moral convictions. Those
failing to comply with the mandate face heavy financial penalties from the government
– penalties so severe that few businesses could survive them.
This is an
unprecedented attack on our religious freedom and constitutional liberty.
Hercules owners, the Newland family, seek nothing more than to run their
company in a manner that reflects their sincerely held religious beliefs,
including their belief that God requires respect for the dignity of human life
and sexuality.
In response, the court issued an order on
July 27 that halts enforcement of the mandate until the lawsuit is settled. The
order came in spite of strenuous opposition from the Obama administration,
whose attorneys actually argue – in blatant contrast to the Constitution – that
people
of faith forfeit their religious liberty once they engage in business.
Every American, including family business owners, should be free to live and do
business according to their faith. The cost of freedom for this family could be
millions of dollars per year in fines that will cripple their business if the
Obama administration ultimately has its way.
Clearly, the danger here is not just to one family business in Colorado –
but to you, your family, and countless family business owners and employees
throughout the U.S. Please be in special prayer for this crucial case and for
our lawyers as they pursue this matter – and other pressing cases – in the
courtrooms of America.
A new
survey by Liberty Institute and the Family Research Council reveals nearly 600
incidents of hostility toward Christianity that have occurred in the U.S. in
the last 10 years. For example, a Christian couple was fired as apartment
complex managers and forced to move because a painting with a Christian
reference was displayed in their office, and a student was told he could not
wear a T-shirt to school because of its Christian message.
Many people
think that hostility because of people's religious beliefs and attacks on
religious liberties are things that happen elsewhere in the world, not the
United States. It actually happens with increasing and alarming regularity here
in the United States."
Source: OneNewsNow, Alliance Defending Freedom
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