A Little Good News for Religious Liberty as Obama Administration Flies a White Flag in Court

[Valin]

National Review/The Corner:

Kathryn Jean Lopez

May 6, 2013

 

The Obama administration appears to be giving up trying to argue in court that a Bible publisher, run by a non-profit religious foundation, isn’t religious. That’s what they had been doing for the better part of a year in the case of Tyndale publishers. (Background here.)

 

As the Alliance Defense Fund explains:

 

At the government’s own request, a federal appellate court Friday dismissed the Obama administration’s appeal of an order that stopped the president from enforcing his abortion pill mandate against a Bible publisher. The administration’s retreat marks the first total appellate victory on a preliminary injunction in any abortion pill mandate case. . . .

 

Friday’s order from U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit means the preliminary injunction issued by a district court in November of last year will stand while the case, Tyndale House Publishers v. Sebelius, moves forward.

(Snip)