Petition of the day
on Sep 8, 2015 at 8:06 pm
The petition of the day is:
Issue: (1) Whether the availability of a regulatory method for nonprofit religious employers to comply with HHS’s contraceptive mandate eliminates either the substantial burden on religious exercise or the violation of RFRA that this Court recognized in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.; (2) whether HHS can satisfy RFRA’s demanding test for overriding sincerely held religious objections in circumstances where HHS itself insists that overriding the religious objection will not fulfill HHS’s regulatory objective – namely, the provision of no-cost contraceptives to the objector’s employees; and (3) whether the First Amendment allows HHS to discriminate among nonprofit religious employers who share the same sincere religious objections to the contraceptive mandate by exempting some religious employers while insisting that others comply.
