Court rejects, again, Texas religious challenge to Obamacare

Source: Austin American-Statesman

A federal appeals court will not reconsider its ruling, delivered in June, that the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive rules do not violate the religious freedom of church-based organizations in Texas.

The religious organizations, including two Catholic dioceses and the University of Dallas, had asked the full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reject the ruling by a three-judge panel.

The court refused 11-4, issuing an opinion that did not discuss the merits of the case.

Three of the justices on the losing side, however, issued a scathing dissent that called the original ruling “ironic and tragic” for denying the free exercise of religion and placing “literally millions of dollars in fines and immortal souls on the line.

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