The Supreme Court’s ruling this week that corporations can deny birth-control coverage to employees on religious grounds may not presage similar success for the host of faith-based nonprofit institutions challenging the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate, according to a Religion News Service analysis.
Several legal and religious-liberty experts note that Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion in the case brought by Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties cited the government’s failure to offer for-profit firms an accommodation like that granted faith nonprofits, which can sign a form designating a third party to pay for and provide contraceptive coverage. Justice Anthony Kennedy made a similar point in his concurring opinion.
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