They’ve never been asked to provide birth control; it’s never been a part of their health insurance plan, before, during or after ObamaCare.  It has never been a consideration or request of any individual within their religious enclave.  Yet still, the court says they must violate the essential tenet of their belief and provide it; ridiculous.

The Supreme Court has already ruled on this specific issue in prior rulings, yet the Tenth Circuit Court disregards the higher authority, and compels the Little Sisters to violate their faith.  

They’ll win in higher court, but the issue is why that route is even mandated.

(Via National Review) The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that the Little Sisters of the Poor have to comply with the administration’s “HHS mandate” on contraceptives, as modified by its “accommodation” for religious non-profits. But the decision seems to directly contradict the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby ruling.

The ruling holds that the Little Sisters believe that complying with administration policy renders it complicit in immoral activity, that taking actions that make them complicit in immoral activity is itself immoral, and thus that they cannot take such actions consistent with their conscience.

The Tenth Circuit has decided that the Little Sisters are wrong about their complicity. The Supreme Court, in Hobby Lobby, could not have been clearer that this kind of reasoning is inconsistent with the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. (read more)