Obama Won’t Exempt Little Sisters of the Poor, But Look Who He DID Exempt

The Little Sisters of the Poor Catholic nuns, along with 37 other religious charities and non-profits, argued before the Supreme Court that they should be provided a religious exemption from an Obamacare mandate forcing them to provide coverage for abortion and contraception to their employees.

Their argument was that being forced to do so would violate their strongly held religious beliefs, while the government insisted that they must do so in order to ensure that everybody in the country has access to “essential health care services” such as abortion-inducing drugs and other forms of birth control.

But the refusal of the government to provide a religious exemption for the Little Sisters and other like-minded groups flies in the face of the fact that Obama’s Health and Human Services has provided an exemption from that exact mandate for a number of large and rather well-known corporations, according to the Catholic News Agency.

They reported that the health care plans provided by corporations such as ExxonMobil, Chevron, Visa Inc. and PepsiCo, among others, were “grandfathered in” to Obamacare and not subject to the abortion mandate.

Astonishingly, neither is the family insurance plan offered by the government’s own U.S. military.

Furthermore, a recent study showed that about a third of all Americans don’t have the mandated coverage in their individual or family insurance plans, yet with so many not carrying the mandated coverage, or being granted an exemption from it, the government continues to insist the Little Sisters and their compatriots violate their closely held beliefs in order to do so.

This has led some to speculate that the entire case has little to do with the actual coverage of abortion and contraception drugs, and more to do with yet another swipe at religious liberty by the Obama administration.

“The Little Sisters spend their lives taking care of the neediest members of our society — that is work our government should applaud, not punish,” said Mark Rienzi, senior counsel of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. “The Little Sisters should not have to fight their own government to get an exemption it has already given to thousands of other employers, including big companies like Exxon and Pepsi Cola Bottling Company.”

It remains to be seen how the court, which has ruled in favor of the nuns in a prior hearing, will decide this case, but if they rule against the Little Sisters of the Poor, the nuns will be on the hook for more than $70 million in fines imposed by Obama’s HHS for failing to provide the mandated coverage that others have been exempted from.

H/T Life News

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