The Obama administration today filed its first legal response to Belmont Abbey College's lawsuit challenging the controversial contraception mandate, according to The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represents Belmont Abbey in this case.
The Obama administration had their first opportunity to explain to the court and the country why the mandate is not illegal and unconstitutional, and it seems like an epic fail.
"You might have expected them to argue that we don't have a constitutional claim," Mark Rienzi of the Becket Fund told The Cardinal Newman Society. "But instead they said ‘hey didn't you hear we may fix it someday?'"
Rienzi called it "really cynical" to have a law on the books but then argue that the court shouldn't look at the law, because the administration said they'd fix it some day in the future.
