Last week, Hercules Industries, a heating ventilation and air
conditioning manufacturer based in Denver, Colorado, won a preliminary
injunction in federal court against Barack Obama’s fiat that all
companies pay for the contraceptives, sterilizations, and abortifacients
of their employees. Run by a Catholic family with conscientious
objections to the mandate, Hercules Industries, which employs roughly
300 workers, was looking at potential fines of over $3 million a year.
While the injunction is only temporary and applies to only this one
company, it nonetheless represents an important rebuke to the Obama
administration — a rebuke from a Jimmy Carter appointee no less.
“On balance, the threatened harm to plaintiffs, impingement of their right to freely exercise their religious beliefs, and the concomitant public interest in that right strongly favor the entry of injunctive relief,” ruled Judge John L. Kane.
The argument used by Obama’s Justice Department lawyers to try and shut down the company’s request for an injunction was telling in its crude secularism: they argued that the Catholic owners of Hercules Industries lost their right to religious liberty the moment they decided to own a business. “Indeed, the Supreme Court has recognized that, ‘[w]hen followers of a particular sect enter into commercial activity as a matter of choice, the limits they accept on their own conduct as a matter of conscience and faith are not to be superimposed on the statutory schemes which are binding on others in that activity,” read their motion, as reported by FoxNews.com.
“On balance, the threatened harm to plaintiffs, impingement of their right to freely exercise their religious beliefs, and the concomitant public interest in that right strongly favor the entry of injunctive relief,” ruled Judge John L. Kane.
The argument used by Obama’s Justice Department lawyers to try and shut down the company’s request for an injunction was telling in its crude secularism: they argued that the Catholic owners of Hercules Industries lost their right to religious liberty the moment they decided to own a business. “Indeed, the Supreme Court has recognized that, ‘[w]hen followers of a particular sect enter into commercial activity as a matter of choice, the limits they accept on their own conduct as a matter of conscience and faith are not to be superimposed on the statutory schemes which are binding on others in that activity,” read their motion, as reported by FoxNews.com.
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