Catholic, Southern Baptist Religious Liberty Leaders Lead Open Letter Effort For Conscience Protection Given HHS Mandate
July 2, 2013
WASHINGTON—Archbishop William E.
Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB)
Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty, Russell D. Moore, Ph.D., president of
the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, and
a wide variety of over 100 prominent national religious leaders and scholars
released an open letter July 2 entitled Standing
Together for Religious Freedom. The letter calls on the Administration and
Congress to respect conscience rights and religious freedom.
The open letter highlights the
threat to conscience posed by the Administration's mandate that almost all
employers cover contraception, sterilization and abortifacient drugs and
devices in their health insurance plans. As the signatories write, freedom of
religion goes beyond mere freedom of worship and extends to believers' roles as
citizen and employer.
"The doctrines of our respective
faiths require something of us beyond the walls of our churches, synagogues,
temples, and other places of worship," the signers said. "Those faith
convictions manifest themselves through
our daily interactions among family, neighbors, strangers and institutions."
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