by Father Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life
for Religion News Service (RNS)
(RNS) If the now eight-member Supreme Court sticks to its schedule and hears oral arguments on March 23 in the lawsuit that Priests for Life (and six other consolidated cases) have brought against the Obama administration’s HHS mandate, media reports may lead you to believe that only devout Catholics and evangelicals are involved in a matter that concerns health insurance and contraception.
If so, they will have overlooked Orthodox Jewish rabbis, the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, Tenn., and the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
As evidenced by friend-of-the-court briefs filed in our case, a rich diversity of faith traditions across America understand that what is at stake in the government’s action is literally the freedom to practice one’s religion — whatever that religion may be.
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