Why the Left won’t stop targeting the Little Sisters of the Poor

At its heart, Obamacare was a massive welfare program meant to redistribute healthcare costs to the middle class. But it was also a social engineering project aimed at coercing religious organizations and businesses to adopt progressive values. The Affordable Care Act mandated employers, including nonprofit organizations such as Little Sisters of the Poor, to pay for contraceptives in their worker-provided health insurance as an “essential health benefit” under the euphemistic category of “preventative and wellness services.”

There was no “religious exemption.”

It’s worth taking a step back and thinking about that term. The very idea that an American citizen should be impelled to ask the state for an “exemption” to practice their faith is an assault on assault on the fundamental idea of liberty. Imagine

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