The Surprising Christian Organizations Suing the Government

Christianity Today, November 19, 2012

Eric Rassbach, deputy general counsel for the Becket Fund, which is representing plaintiffs such as Wheaton College and Hobby Lobby, says his clients are not looking to get involved in “culture wars.” Rather, he calls it “conscience wars,” because the issue for evangelical plaintiffs is not contraceptives per se, but the Obama administration’s argument that they aren’t religious enough to qualify for exemption. (The exemption applies only to churches that primarily employ and serve people of their own faith and have as their “purpose” the inculcation of religious belief.)