James Dobson Sues Sebelius Over Abortion Mandate- 'Comply & Abandon Your Religious Freedom, Or Resist And Be Fined For Your Faith'

Bob Unruh * WND

Dr. James Dobson, the longtime family values advocate who now reaches out to millions through his Family Talk ministry, has filed a lawsuit against Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the pro-abortion former Kansas governor who held parties for late-term abortionists there, over the Obamacare abortion mandate.

“We believe that every human life, from the moment of conception, is sacred and a gift from God, and we cannot cooperate with this immoral mandate without violating our most deeply held religious beliefs,” Dobson said.

The case was brought by the Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of Dobson and Family Talk in U.S. District Court in Denver.

The issue, like in a number of other lawsuits already pending in the courts, is that the Obama administration is demanding that Family Talk cause its third party insurance administrator to provide abortion-inducing drugs and devices to Family Talk employees.

Whether the employees want those products is irrelevant to the Obamacare mandate, it requires the provision no matter what the employer or the employee believe.

As a Christian ministry, Family Talk’s self-insured health plan excludes coverage of abortion-inducing drugs and devices. But the complaint notes that if Family Talk does not comply with the mandate’s requirements by May 1, 2014, it will be subject to fines up to $36,500 per employee annually.

“The government has put religious employers to a cruel choice: ‘Abandon your religious beliefs or be fined out of existence,’” said ADF lead counsel Matthew Bowman. “Thankfully, the Constitution and other federal laws don’t allow that.”

The Obama administration was asked to provide an exemption for religious employers, but officials there defined that so narrowly that workers at Christian colleges, nursing homes, soup kitchens and parachurch ministries are not protected from the damage incurred by Obama’s health plan mandates.

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