Family Businesses Winning Against Obamacare’s Contraception Mandate

Family-owned businesses are slowly making headway against Obamacare’s contraception mandate.

The mandate would require these businesses to purchase employees health insurance that includes coverage for contraception, abortifacients, sterilization, and similar items or face excessive fines.

So far 19 out of 26 plaintiffs have won stays against the mandate.

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CA Senate Votes to Revoke Scouts’ Tax-Exempt Status

From Baptist Press:

Less than a week after the Boy Scouts changed its policy to allow gay-identifying youth, the California Senate passed a law that would revoke the organization’s tax-exempt status if it doesn’t also allow gay leaders.

By Norman Rockwell for The Red Cross Magazine [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

We have written about this legislation before. Essentially this bill punishes organizations like the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, Little League, Special Olympics, American Youth Soccer Organization, Future Business Leaders of America, and many religious organizations that serve youth, because these organizations “discriminate on the basis of gender identity, race, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, or religious affiliations.”

The Boy Scouts of America have already given in to activists who want to hijack scouting’s noble mission for their personal agenda, but evidently some lawmakers in California feel the Boy Scouts have not gone far enough.

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