Supreme Court OKs another religious birth control exemption

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A divided Supreme Court gave a small Christian college in Illinois a temporary exemption Thursday from the “contraceptive mandate” in President Obama’s healthcare law, renewing questions about how the justices will handle religious requests to opt out of the rule.

On Monday, in its decision in the Hobby Lobby case, the court approved religious exemptions for companies whose owners have religious objections to certain forms of contraception. In their opinions, the justices spoke approvingly of a compromise position the administration had previously adopted that is designed to shield religiously affiliated non-profit employers from paying directly for contraceptives.

The language in Monday’s decision appeared to signal that the court would uphold the administration’s compromise, which has been challenged by dozens of religious colleges and charities.

But in Thursday’s order, the court granted Wheaton College, an evangelical Protestant liberal arts school west of Chicago, a temporary injunction allowing them to continue not to comply with the compromise rule.

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-80714896/

[dballance]

1. I think we can guess how that's going to turn out. 5-4 /nt

[enlightenment]

2. Death by 1,000 cuts. n/t

[n2doc]

3. They are going to use this to destroy both Women's rights and LGBT rights

Will it wake people up? That's the question. If it leads to the destruction of the RW, then it could be a great thing. But people who care have to Get out and VOTE.