Supreme Court declines to protect religious freedom.
From " Supreme Court Won't Hear Case on Faith-Based Groups Funding Birth Control" from Staff Reports, 9/27/07 at Citizenlink.org
The Supreme Court will not hear objections to a controversial New York law that forces religious organizations, including Baptist, Orthodox Jewish and Seventh-Day Adventist groups, to go against their beliefs and pay for employees' contraceptives.
Kiera McCaffrey with the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights said the court’s avoidance tactic is becoming somewhat of a pattern.
“They don’t want to address these cases," she told Family News in Focus. "They are important cases of religious liberty, and for the Supreme Court to shirk it is very troubling.”
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