Heritage Foundation: "Two Centuries of Religious Freedom Rolled Back"

UPDATE: Blunt Amendment defeated, 48-51. Three Democrats - Nelson, Casey, Manchin - voted for it but it wasn't enough. Senate Defeats Blunt Amendment to Stop Obama HHS Mandate

The Blunt Amendment to reverse the HHS Mandate comes up for a vote in the Senate today.

As we all know, President Obama’s health care law will mandate that religious hospitals, charities, and schools abandon the tenets of their faiths and provide their employees insurance coverage of abortion-inducing drugs, contraception and sterilization. This anti-conscience mandate is but the latest assault on liberty Obamacare has ushered in. Its shock waves are reverberating across the country, waking Americans to the fact that our first freedom — religious liberty — will be the first to fall now that the federal government has unfettered control over the country’s health care system.