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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

The Supreme Court issued two rulings yesterday, and will make public its remaining

opinions later today. Both of Wednesday's rulings were good news for evangelical Christians.

One upheld a Trump administration regulation that allows employers with religious or moral

objections to limit women's access to birth control

coverage under the Affordable Care Act, ACA.

By way of background, the ACA required employers to promote contraceptives to employees with no

out-of-pocket costs.

Churches were exempted, but other employers with religious affiliations

were not. Hobby Lobby successfully appealed to the court in 2014, citing its religious

objection to forms of birth control that it considers abortifacients, drugs that caused the fetus

to be aborted. Yesterday's rulings similarly exempted all employers

with religious and conscientious objections. The other Supreme Court ruling declared that

federal employment discrimination laws do not apply to teachers whose duties include instruction

in religion at church-run schools. At issue was whether Catholic schools in California

were free to dismiss two teachers who were not priests or ministers. Both rulings are good news

for evangelicals, whatever our views about particular forms of contraception or engagement in

religious instruction, in that they signal the

court's desire to protect religious beliefs from governmental infringement. Despite these

positive decisions, this term Supreme Court rulings remind us that we cannot place our trust

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