Religion and Politics

God vs. the Government

At Slate, Dahlia Lithwick explains that the challenge of the Little Sisters of the Poor to the contraception mandate is not about a form, but who decides what the form means. “The Little Sisters reject the government contention that the form is an opt-out. Why? Religious doctrine.” writes Lithwick. “This isn’t just a fight over what signing the form means, it’s a fight about who gets to decide what fighting over the form means: Barack Obama or God? And who wants to be the judge of that?”

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