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We already know that 2014 was a big year<\/a> for religious exemption cases, from the gravely serious to the immensely trivial. But what will 2015 have in store? If I were a prophet I could, of course, predict the future. But let\u2019s just call these my top three educated guesses for the kinds of religious exemption cases we\u2019re going to see in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Contraception: Total Exemption<\/p>\n

First and foremost, we\u2019re going to see continuing litigation over the Affordable Care Act\u2019s contraceptive coverage requirement and the accommodation process already in place. There are some plaintiffs, both for-profit and non-profit, who will object to any accommodation at all<\/a> and claim a right to a total exemption from the law; i.e., they don\u2019t want anyone to give their employees birth control coverage in any manner that is related to their employment.<\/p>\n

That is, if the government just wanted to give every woman in America a free-standing statutory right to contraceptive insurance coverage that would be paid for and administered by the government and would not involve your employer in any way, even as a vehicle, that might be ok with them. Maybe.<\/p>\n

Ultimately the Supreme Court is probably going to have to consider the question of whether RFRA provides a complete exemption<\/a> for those who object to any accommodation process.<\/p>\n

Read the rest here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"