Religious liberty and the Obamacare contraceptive mandate

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🗓️ 31 March 2016

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Greg Lipper of Americans United for Separation of Church and State and Michael Moreland of Villanova University debate one of the most important Supreme Court cases of the term. We need your help to make this podcast even better! Go to bit.ly/wtpfeedback to share your feedback. Freedom Day is April 13, 2016. Learn more and get involved: constitutioncenter.org/freedom-day. Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on our Facebook page and Twitter feed. Please subscribe to We the People on iTunes. While you’re in the iTunes Store, leave us a rating and review—it helps other people discover what we do. Please also subscribe to Live at America’s Town Hall, featuring conversations and debates presented at the Center, across from Independence Hall in beautiful Philadelphia. We the People is a member of Slate’s Panoply network. Check out all of our sibling podcasts at iTunes.com/Panoply. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit—we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by Jason Gregory and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Research was provided by Josh Waimberg. The host of We the People is Jeffrey Rosen.

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0:18.0	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center
0:22.0	and welcome to We The People, a weekly show of
0:24.7	constitutional debate.
0:26.4	The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America chartered by Congress
0:30.8	to disseminate information about the US Constitution on a nonpartisan
0:34.9	basis and on today's show we take a deep dive into one of the most important cases
0:39.2	before the Supreme Court this term Zubick versus Burwell.
0:44.2	Zubick comes to the Court as seven combined cases,
0:47.0	all brought by religious nonprofits.
0:49.0	Some of you may know it as the Little Sisters
0:51.1	of the Poor case, since the Sisters are indeed part of the challenge,
0:54.8	but the combined case is named for the first individual case to reach the court.
0:58.9	Zubik refers to the most Reverend David Zubik, who's the Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh, and Burwell is
1:05.1	Sylvia Burwell, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
1:09.9	The question before the court, does the Affordable Care Act's requirements that employers
1:13.8	provide free insurance coverage for contraception to female workers violate the religious
1:19.4	liberty of those employers?
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