11-18-2011, 08:45 AM
A similar case (or as they say in my neighborhood, a sim-yu-ler case). FWIW, Belmont Abbey College is ranked 38 among Regional Colleges (South) in the 2012 edition of USN&WR Best Colleges.
Quote:Catholic college sues HHS over contraception mandate
November 14, 2011
Belmont Abbey College, a Benedictine college in western North Carolina, has sued the federal government in an effort to prevent the implementation of a mandate requiring private health insurance plans to cover contraception and sterilization.
“A monk at Belmont Abbey may preach on Sunday that pre-marital sex, contraception, and abortions are immoral, but on Monday, the government would force the same monk to pay for students to receive the very drugs and procedures he denounces,” said Hannah Smith, senior legal counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. “This is much worse than an unfunded mandate; it is a monk-funded mandate.”
According to the Becket Fund, Belmont Abbey College will face a $140,000 fine if it chooses to drop health insurance coverage for its employees.