before helping to countdown the last seconds of 2013 in times square tuesday night, supreme court justice sonja society mire agreed to temporarily block the affordable care act's contraception mandate so that it will not yet impact a group of religious organizations including a network of homes for the elderly run by catholic nones. the nuns and other plaintiffs are already exempt from providing contraceptive coverage to employees under the affordable care act, but they claim that filling out the form certifying they are exempt is in itself a violation of their religious beliefs. here's their point. employees of exempt organizations can still get birth control coverage directly from the administrator of their health plan so the religious organization has nothing to do with it. but for that to happen, the religious organization needs to first fill out the form certifying its exemption.