Judie Brown: Support Belmont Abbey College President Bill Thierfelder
I previously reported on the firestorm at Belmont Abbey College which the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled Belmont Abbey College must include coverage for contraception (which often function as abortifacients) in its employee health insurance plan. Judie Brown weighs in on this controversy in her blog post COLLISION OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS . Here is an excerpt: The news reports are quite clear on exactly what happened at Belmont Abbey , a Catholic college in South Carolina. The college has been warned by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that if the administration doesn’t stop discriminating against female employees by denying contraceptive benefits in the college’s health coverage plan, the EEOC will take them to court! “Contraception, abortion and voluntary sterilization came off Belmont Abbey College’s faculty health care policy in December 2007 after a faculty member discovered that coverage, according to an e-mail Belmont Abbey College Presiden...