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Matthew Franck on Hobby Lobby & Religious Freedom Jurisprudence

Tags: Bart Stupak, circuit conflict, Conestoga Wood Specialties, ella, Employment Division v Smith, exemption case jurisprudence, HHS mandate, Hobby Lobby, Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran School, Hyde Amendment, Little Sisters of the Poor, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Plan B, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Sherbert v Verner, Supreme Court, Wisconsin v Yoder

What is the history behind, and issues relevant to, the upcoming Supreme Court Case involving Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties that will decide whether the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is consistent with our understandings of religious liberty? Prof. Matthew Franck of the Witherspoon Institute details how this conflict emerged and summarizes the main issues involved and arguments to be made by both sides. He also reviews the relevant case law that sits in the background of this case. This podcast is a great way to beef up your understanding of what is coming down in our judicial system.

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Phillip Muñoz on Catholic Bishops, Religious Liberty, and Health Care Mandates

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops recently released a document on religious liberty that criticized a new regulatory provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (a.k.a., Obamacare) requiring employers to provide insurance coverage for contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs. Prof. Phillip Muñoz (Notre Dame) helps us wade through this controversy explaining the bishops’ argument, the politics surrounding this issue, and the various streams of Catholic social thought including the principle of subsidiarity. While primarily focused on health care (and specifically issues related to reproductive health), we take our discussion into other areas of religious freedom that the Catholic Church and others have considered important.

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