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Religious groups are deeply divided over the Supreme Court\u2019s controversial ruling Monday (June 30) in the so-called Hobby Lobby case. In a 5-4 decision, the justices said despite a requirement in the Affordable Care Act, some for-profit corporations cannot be forced to provide contraception coverage which their owners say violates their religious beliefs. Managing Editor Kim Lawton reports on the various reactions within the faith community. Also, host Bob Abernethy talks with Lawton and Religion News Service editor-in-chief Kevin Eckstrom about wider implications of the decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The court will have to sort of decide where one person\u2019s freedom ends and another person\u2019s begins on something like this. But it does point to this larger question that we have,” observes Kevin Eckstrom, editor-in-chief of Religion News Service, “should religious groups or religious people or institutions be treated differently under the law than everybody else, and what the court is saying here is, Yes.” More →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":23549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[1049,17797,17796,6593,1722],"class_list":["post-23515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-abortion","tag-contraception-mandate","tag-hobby-lobby","tag-kevin-eckstrom","tag-kim-lawton","topics-faith-and-spirituality","topics-law","faith-christian","faith-evangelical"],"yoast_head":"\nJuly 4, 2014 ~ Hobby Lobby Ruling | July 3, 2014 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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