Colorado nuns appeal birth control ruling to Supreme Court @CBN

By the Associated Press | July 23, 2015 | 2:40 PM EDT

DENVER (AP) — A group of Colorado nuns said Thursday they will go to the U.S. Supreme Court to appeal a ruling that allows their employees to receive birth control from a third party under the Affordable Care Act, fueling a combustible argument over contraception and religion ahead of next year's presidential election.

Attorneys for Little Sisters of the Poor and four Oklahoma Christian colleges said last week's ruling from the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver violates their religious freedom, in an argument that goes beyond last year's Hobby Lobby case.

A three-judge panel on the federal appellate court found that President Barack Obama's health care law accommodates religious nonprofits by allowing them to seek exemption from a requirement to provide contraception to employees. The religious institutions, however, argue that the exemption is inadequate because a third party will still end up providing birth control coverage in opposition to their religious beliefs.

"The Sisters consider it immoral to help the government distribute these drugs," Mark Rienzi, senior counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, who represented the nuns, said in a statement.

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