{"id":217562,"date":"2012-10-09T12:31:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T17:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=217562"},"modified":"2012-10-10T14:00:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T19:00:11","slug":"etbu-filed-lawsuit-over-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=217562","title":{"rendered":"ETBU Filed Lawsuit Over Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=217703\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-217703\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/10\/East-Texas-Baptist-University-Seal-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"East Texas Baptist University Seal\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-217703\" \/><\/a>EAST TEXAS \u2014 East Texas Baptist University (ETBU) and Houston Baptist University (HBU) have filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, asking the court for relief from the Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 \u201cpreventative services\u201d mandate. This forces the Christian Universities to violate their deeply held religious beliefs or pay severe fines, according to KETK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBaptists in America, by virtue of their history, are particularly sensitive to coercive government actions that infringe on religious liberty,\u201d says Eric Rassbach, Deputy General Counsel for The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which filed suit this morning on behalf of the Universities. \u201cAmerica\u2019s first Baptist leader, Roger Williams, had to flee Massachusetts and found a colony in Providence, Rhode Island, because his religious beliefs were not tolerated by the laws of Massachusetts. We shouldn\u2019t have to fight for that same right today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ETBU\u2019s and HBU\u2019s religious convictions prevent them from providing their employees with access to abortion-causing drugs. The Universities\u2019 lawsuit aims to preserve their religious liberty and the right to carry out their missions free from government coercion. The two Universities face fines of over $10 million per year, per institution, if they do not comply with the HHS mandate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS \u2014 East Texas Baptist University (ETBU) and Houston Baptist University (HBU) have filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, asking the court for relief from the Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 \u201cpreventative services\u201d mandate. This forces the Christian Universities to violate their deeply held religious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=217562\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ETBU Filed Lawsuit Over Obamacare<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 06:08:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217562"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217802,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217562\/revisions\/217802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}