“We feel that all Americans deserve the right to follow their religious freedom. All Americans, including family business owners, have the right to live and do business according to their faith. And these fundamental principles are being denied us and taken away from us through this HHS mandate. [...] My father started this business 50years ago and he started it with everything that he supplied into this business. He did it on his own, contrary to what, maybe, our president would think. He did it on his own. I watched him implement the moral values, ethical standards, the conduct and corporate culture that we have today, that has made this business successful and profitable for 50 years. Now we are being asked to change that corporate culture.”
William Newland, Catholic family business owner, whose Colorado company won an injunction to stop the contraception mandate, said Monday, businesses should be able to reject the health-care mandate on religious freedom grounds.
Read more in the Faith 2012 Quote Archives.
Washington, D.C. June 28, 2012 - Crowd outside the Supreme Court after its landmark decision to upheld the health-care mandatewas announced.
(Lucian Perkins - LUCIAN PERKINS)
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