Supreme Court Schedules Arguments for Hobby Lobby Case
By Michael Gryboski, Christian Post Reporter

The United States Supreme Court has officially scheduled oral arguments for what many believe will be a landmark case regarding religious liberty.

Hobby Lobby Stores Inc., a Midwest crafts retail chain, will get to present oral arguments against the Department of Health and Human Services’ “preventive services” mandate on Tuesday, March 25.

Owned and operated by a Christian family who hold religious objections to providing abortion-inducing drugs to its employees, Hobby Lobby is represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.

At stake is the extent to which the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) applies to Hobby Lobby and other businesses’ objection to providing various contraceptive insurance coverage for their employees, reported Scotusblog.

“Whether the [RFRA], which provides that the government ‘shall not substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion’ unless that burden is the least restrictive means to further a compelling governmental interest, allows a for-profit corporation to deny its employees the health coverage of contraceptives to which the employees are otherwise entitled by federal law, based on the religious objections of the corporation’s owners,” reads an entry on the blog.

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