Faith-Based Nonprofits Challenge HHS Mandate

More religious organizations are challenging the birth control mandate in Obamacare.

Plaintiffs, including a group of Colorado nuns and four Christian colleges in Oklahoma, told the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals they should be treated like houses of worship and shouldn't have to file papers that express their religious objection.

The groups have to inform the government they object on religious grounds in order to qualify for an exemption.

But the plantiffs argued that by signing away coverage to another party, their organizations become complicit in providing contraceptives.

"It is morally problematic" to sign the forms, argued Greg Baylor, lawyer for Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, Oklahoma.

"There are plenty of other ways the government could put (emergency contraception) in the hands of the people without us," the Townhall.com quoted Baylor.