Tyndale House Files Suit Against the HHS Mandate

Tyndale House, one of the largest Christian book publishers in the world, filed suit yesterday against the HHS Mandate.

Tyndale House specializes in religious books, particularly Bibles. Despite this, they fell outside the narrowly-drawn exemptions to the HHS Mandate requiring employers to pay for, among other things, abortifacients.

According to an October 2 LifeNews.com article, “The (HHS) mandate forces employers, regardless of their religious or moral convictions, to provide insurance coverage for abortion-inducing drugs, sterlization and contraception under threat of heavy penalties.”

This ” … demands that Americans choose between two poison pills: either desert your faith by complying, or resist and be punished,” Matt Bowman, Senior Legal Counsel for Tyndale said.

Tyndale House Publishers V Sebelius was filed in the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Tuesday October 2, 2012.

The LifeNew.com article reads in part:

Tyndale House Publishers, which publishes Bibles and other Christian books and multimedia, filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the Obama administration’s abortion pill mandate.

Tyndale House is one of the world’s largest privately held Christian publishers of books, Bibles, and digital media, but it is apparently not religious enough to meet the narrowly-drawn pot-out the Obama administration placed in the HHS mandate.

Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing Tyndale House filed a lawsuit and said it is subject to the mandate because Obama administration rules say for-profit corporations are categorically non-religious, even though Tyndale House is strictly a publisher of Bibles and other Christian materials. Tyndale is owned by the non-profit Tyndale House Foundation, a Christian group which provides grants to help meet the physical and spiritual needs of people around the world. (Read more here.)