Belmont Abbey College of Charlotte has filed a lawsuit challenging the ObamaCare mandate that the college violate its religious beliefs and provide abortifacients as part of its health insurance. The Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty is representing the college.

Belmont Abbey College now faces hefty IRS fines unless it complies with the mandate’s requirement to provide its employees with contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs that violate its Catholic beliefs.

“Religious liberty, a fundamental right of all American citizens, has enabled our Benedictine community to found and operate our College according to the principles of our Catholic faith for one hundred and thirty-seven years. We cannot abandon these principles at the whim of the government without destroying the distinct mission of the school as well as the fundamental rights we enjoy in this country,” said Abbot Placid Solari, Chancellor of the College and Abbot of Belmont Abbey. 

Meantime, in Pittsburgh, the Catholic Diocese has won a temporary injunction against ObamaCare for the same reason.