bridge is falling down. thank you for being here. little sisters of the porand catholic nuns that cared for the poor in america for 150 years and the federal government said it is not a religious employer and not exempt and forcing them to provide contraceptive coverage. if they don t they will pay million in irs fines and penalties. it will be heard in denver on monday. they represent the little sisters of the porand he joins me now. josh, great to have you back on the show. thank you. here is my simple question. how can the obama administration think that the little sisters of the poor are not religious enough to meet the criteria? you know for 175 years, the little sisters of the poor cared for the elderly, poor and dying
bridge is falling down. thank you for being here. little sisters of the porand catholic nuns that cared for the poor in america for 150 years and the federal government said it is not a religious employer and not exempt and forcing them to provide contraceptive coverage. if they don t they will pay million in irs fines and penalties. it will be heard in denver on monday. they represent the little sisters of the porand he joins me now. josh, great to have you back on the show. thank you. here is my simple question. how can the obama administration think that the little sisters of the poor are not religious enough to meet the criteria? you know for 175 years, the little sisters of the poor cared
bridge is falling down. thank you for being here. little sisters of the porand catholic nuns that cared for the poor in america for 150 years and the federal government said it is not a religious employer and not exempt and forcing them to provide contraceptive coverage. if they don t they will pay million in irs fines and penalties. it will be heard in denver on monday. they represent the little sisters of the porand he joins me now. josh, great to have you back on the show. thank you. here is my simple question. how can the obama administration think that the little sisters of the poor are not religious enough to meet the criteria? you know for 175 years, the little sisters of the poor cared for the elderly, poor and dying
it s pretty clear democrats believe they need women on their side if they re going to hold on to the senate and have any shot at picking up seats in the house this fall and they re doing everything they can to try to create that wedge issue. that s the backdrop to a new fight over the supreme court s hobby lobby ruling which lets some companies opt out of contraceptive coverage on religious grounds. upset of what they called an attack on women s rights, harry reid and senate democrats tried to undermine the ruling with a bill they called my not my boss s business act, but the bill couldn t even get through the senate, falling four votes shy of breaking a filibuster. just three republicans supported it. but that played directly into the hands of democrats who didn t waste adding the vote to a long list of grievances. we ve seen this kind of attack on women from republicans time and time again. we ve seen it in states that are threatening to subject women to
hobby lobby ruling last night, corporations are becoming more like people in the eyes of the law. the supreme court ruled 5-4 that closely held corporations have their own religious freedom and the corporations can use their religious freedom to deny health insurance coverage for contraception as required by law. the court s majority insisted they were issuing a narrow decision. they said it applied only to businesses like hobby lobby and only to contraception. but after that, the conservative justices went back into the ruling and expanded its scope. they clarified that the court was allowing the denial of contraception to all forms of birth control covered by the affordable care act, not just the four methods that hobby lobby objected to in its lawsuit. then later in the week, the court seemed to erode the assurances in the hobby lobby decision that employees would still get contraceptive coverage once the corporations they worked for filed paperwork exempting them. some groups said