After years of litigation, religious liberty lawyers are tentatively celebrating over the leak of a new version of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) contraceptive and abortifacient mandate. The new proposal, obtained by the website Vox, would grant broad exemptions to religious and nonreligious moral objectors to the mandate, whether nonprofits, for-profits, or individuals. 

Doctors and healthcare providers do not have to break with their consciences to perform sex change operations under a preliminary injunction against an Obama administration mandate.

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor of Texas ruled in favor of eight states and three Christian healthcare groups Saturday by blocking a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rule set to go into effect Jan. 1.

While the future of the Supreme Court’s makeup is foggy, the next steps for several cases at the court this term are starting to come into focus.

Several Obama administration executive actions are currently in litigation and may disappear if Donald Trump’s administration undoes his predecessor’s policies. But many question marks remain about what executive actions Trump will take.

It’s a tale as old as 2011: The government is revisiting its regulation of nonprofits under Obamacare’s contraceptive and abortifacient mandate, for at least the eighth time. Last week the Federal Register posted a “request for information,” seeking input from all parties on a possible alternative to the current mandate.

Samuel W. Oliver, known to friends and colleagues as “Dub,” is president of Union University in Jackson, Tenn. Union became nationally known for deciding to resign from the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities because the CCCU would not sanction or terminate the membership of two colleges that condoned same-sex marriage. For the past 20 years, Oliver has witnessed firsthand the challenges Christian colleges face. He met with me in Asheville, N.C., to talk about the climate of Christian higher education.

When Missouri state Sen. Paul Wieland and his wife, Teresa, discovered their insurance provider no longer offered a plan without contraceptive coverage, they began to scour the internet for insurers who did. Finding none—because the Affordable Care Act mandates universal contraceptive coverage—the Wielands prepared to drop federal -funded health insurance altogether.

Then, they sued the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. (Joshua 1:9)