An evangelical college has sued the federal government over the thin conscience protections in the national healthcare law—a concern that many have chiefly associated with Catholics. The same day the school filed the suit, an array of evangelical leaders sent another letter to the White House contesting the current conscience protections and urging President Obama to expand those protections.
“If the administration thought that conscience objections to this [Health and Human Services] mandate would be muted or isolated, Colorado Christian’s lawsuit proves otherwise,” Hannah Smith, a senior legal counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which is representing the college in the suit, said in a statement. “Evangelical Christians have now joined Catholics to defend their religious rights.”
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