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27 Jan 2016

Little Sister on Religious Freedom Lawsuit: We Have No Choice But to See it Through to End

  • January 27, 2016

By Lauretta Brown | January 25, 2016

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Sister Constance Veit, Communications Director for the Little Sisters of the Poor. (AP photo.)

(CNSNews.com) – Sister Constance Veit, one of the Little Sisters of the Poor in attendance at President Barack Obama’s State of the Union, told CNSNews.com that a part of the speech that affected her was when he “expressed the desire for respect for all faiths in the same paragraph as he talked about Pope Francis — so it was just my prayer that it would all be a reality.”

The Little Sisters of the Poor are part of the Supreme Court case Zubik v. Burwell, which will decide whether the government can force the Little Sisters and other Christian organizations to go against their religious beliefs and cooperate with a federal mandate, issued under Obamacare, which requires almost all health care plans to cover abortion-inducing drugs and devices, as well as sterilizations and contraceptives.  Click here to read more >>

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