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Conservatives rally across U.S. for ‘religious freedom’
Hundreds gathered on Capitol Hill and at rallies across the nation on Friday in a double-barreled attack on President Obama's health care law and a mandate to require employers to provide insurance coverage of birth control.
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Man behind ‘Rapture pets’ rescue admits it’s a hoax
(RNS) The owner of a business who claimed he would provide atheist rescuers for Christians’ pets left behind in the Rapture now says his service was an elaborate hoax and never had any clients. Bart Centre, who lives in N...
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White House proposal gives religious groups more say birth control mandate exemptions
(RNS) The Obama administration on Friday sought to address religious objections to its birth control mandate, issuing plans to expand the number of faith-based groups that can be exempt from the controversial rule and pro...
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Senate rejects conscience clause change to contraception rule
The Senate on Thursday (March 1) defeated a Republican-led bid to insert a broad religious exemption into a federal mandate that requires most employers and health insurance companies to provide free contraception coverage. The...
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Court says pharmacists can’t be forced to dispense morning-after pill
A federal court on Wednesday struck down a Washington state rule that requires pharmacists to dispense the morning-after pill even if it violates their religious beliefs. Religious liberty advocates cheered the decision. They h...
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Poll finds Americans split on contraception mandate
Americans are split on a federal mandate requiring nearly all employers — even institutions with strong religious affiliations — to provide insurance covering contraception. That’s according to a new poll that...
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Obama to exempt religious groups from contraception mandate
Facing growing backlash from religious groups over the administration’s birth control insurance plan, President Obama on Friday will unveil a new arrangement whereby insurers at religiously affiliated institutions —...
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Workers at religious institutions fear future of pensions
Sue Fritz tended to the sick for more than two decades as a nurse at St. Peter’s University Hospital. By the time she left for another job in 1999, she was vested in the hospital’s federally insured pension program — confident ...
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Evangelicals side with Catholics on insurance mandate
Catholics who have pushed back against a White House policy that would require many religious insurers to cover contraception are getting a high-profile assist from dozens of evangelical leaders. “We write in solidarity, but se...
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