Congressman Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska is no newcomer to this fight for conscience rights — he authored the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act (which is the Blunt bill in the Senate) last spring. He responds to the president today:  The President still doesn’t understand that religious institutions will still be unacceptably entangled–financially and provisionally– with drugs, procedures, and services to which they may have religious and moral objections, in violation of their long-held rights of conscience.  Moreover, this announcement still does not get to the very core of American distress: religious freedom and conscience rights are natural rights

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Congressional Leadership on Religious Liberty

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