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Wheaton College sues HHS over 'preventative service' mandate

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    Christian university files health care challenge

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Just learning some breaking news that is coming in and it's a challenge to the president's health care law is coming from a major Christian university.

And it is now set to file a lawsuit that challenges the part of the law that mandates birth control coverage.

In insurance policies so this is the first non Catholic entity.

Of this side is to take this action and that's why it is a special note this morning Shannon Bream joins me Nash is live in Washington.

Sales on this forest looking tell us about it -- We'll -- it was filed today in federal court by -- Wheaton College.

Administrators there say although they have different objections -- Catholic leaders due to the HHS regulation requiring employers to provide coverage for contraceptives in their health care plans.

It's the bigger principle of religious liberty that motivated college to get involved here's -- president -- -- -- well on the Wheaton College is a Protestant institution.

-- -- our convictions on theological matters in our differences with Roman catholicism are pretty well known but here is an area.

Where we find common cause and I think it highlights for the whole nation and that -- this is not a narrow sick sectarian issue.

It's really a fundamental issue of religious liberty which is after all one of the first freedoms guaranteed in our constitution.

We college did not join the current lawsuits already filed by a number of Catholic institutions this is a separate legal talent Martha.

City Catholic groups Shannon think that this new lawsuit coming from a Protestant.

Educational institution.

Will bolstered their -- hurt to have this -- overturned this part of an overturned.

They do many of these institutions like Catholic university believe the more religious groups and different denominations they get involved the -- Here's what university president John Garvey told us.

The question of religious liberty and not just for Catholics but also for people of other faiths.

The number two that the fight is not really about contraception you notice that president -- said evangelicals and Catholics have some differences on that.

Point but -- to have difficulties.

Conscientious difficulties in complying with the law.

These leaders say that folks from all different religious background that rounds whether it's the Jewish -- and Muslim faith Christian -- All should be concerned about any administration that would limit their religious freedom my interest in reports in --

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