God bless the woman and what a great start to the New Year for religious freedom:
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued an order late Dec. 31, temporarily halting enforcement of the contraceptive mandate against the Denver-based Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged
only hours before the Affordable Care Act began to take effect.
Sotomayor instructed the administration to respond by 10 am Friday to her order. Several Catholic organizations, including the Archbishop of Washington, the Diocese of Nashville, The Catholic University of American and the Michigan Catholic Conference, previously submitted a request that the mandate be blocked until their arguments against it were heard, Fox News reported.
On Jan. 1, lawyer Noel J. Francisco stated on behalf of the Catholic groups, “a regulatory mandate will expose numerous Catholic organizations to draconian fines unless they abandon their religious convictions and take actions that facilitate access to abortion-inducing drugs, contraceptives and sterilization for their employees and students.”
There's more at the link including a letter released by Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to Obama, one I'm sure the man will quickly discard.
The mere fact that the Supreme Court has to stand between a President and a bunch of nuns ought to stun this country out of its complacency.
Let's hope this is a sign of more of the same to come in 2014.
