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Religious Groups React to Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

posted on June 29, 2012

At Religion News Service, David Gibson aggregates reactions by religious groups to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling “that largely upholds President Obama’s health care law.” Sr. Carol Keehan, president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA), approved of the decision, stating, “CHA has long supported health reform that expands access and coverage to everyone.” Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention disagreed with ruling, calling the law “a blatant violation of the personal freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution and perhaps a mortal blow to the concept of federalism.”

Read at Religion News Service