Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–July 1, 2014. On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. to grant religious liberty protections to for-profit corporations, allowing the religious beliefs of the owners of for-profit, secular corporations to be used as justification to deny their employees the contraceptive health coverage that they are entitled to under federal law. The Court’s ruling set a dangerous precedent by giving for-profit corporations a power that no employer should ever have—the right to impose a burden on their workers by coercing them to adhere to religious beliefs that are not their own. A new report released today by the Center for American Progress proposes legislative action to restore religious liberty protections by amending the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or RFRA, and similar legislation.
