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Supreme Court hears oral arguments in key contraception mandate case

Posted on March 23, 2016March 24, 2016 by ReligiousLiberty.TV ReligiousLiberty.TV

This morning the eight-member United States Supreme Court heard the contraceptive mandate cases that were consolidated under the name Zubik v. Burwell (Docket Number 15-191). (See transcript.) They key issue in all the cases was religious employers who rejected the method of receiving the “religious employer exemption” to the Affordable Care Act (2010) which required group health plans and insurance issues to offer plans that provided “approved contraceptive methods, sterilization procedures, and patient education and counseling for all women with reproductive capacity.”

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Pope Francis Calls for Common Good in Speech to Congress – Full Text

Posted on September 24, 2015September 24, 2015 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

“In this land, the various religious denominations have greatly contributed to building and strengthening society. It is important that today, as in the past, the voice of faith continue to be heard, for it is a voice of fraternity and love, which tries to bring out the best in each person and in each society. Such cooperation is a powerful resource in the battle to eliminate new global forms of slavery, born of grave injustices which can be overcome only through new policies and new forms of social consensus.”

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John F. Kennedy’s Speech Affirming Separation of Church and State

Posted on November 20, 2011November 20, 2011 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote; where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference; and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.

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