WASHINGTON, D.C. – Members of the Kansas Congressional delegation today released the following statements after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Obama administration’s attempt to restrict Americans’ religious freedom in the case of Hobby Lobby v. Sebelius:

Senator Jerry Moran said, “Since our nation’s earliest days, the U.S. Supreme Court has consistently affirmed our First Amendment right to exercise our religious beliefs freely,” Sen. Moran said. “Today’s Supreme Court decision rightly rejects the federal government’s intrusion into an individual’s religious liberty. This ruling protects religious practice beyond places of worship without harm to others. I applaud the Supreme Court’s decision.”

Senator Pat Roberts agreed, “Every American has a right to the free exercise of religion guaranteed by the First Amendment to our Constitution. This right has been upheld time and again by the Supreme Court over the last 200 years. I applaud the Court for upholding this fundamental principle of our nation.
“Kansans join millions of pro-life Americans in celebrating this victory, especially at a time when the Obama Administration has said it will circumvent the Congress to enact its agenda. The Court’s ruling has affirmed that they cannot circumvent the Constitution.”

Representative Tim Huelskamp, “Today’s ruling in favor of American’s Constitutional rights is a victory for religious liberty, the very soul of the Constitution. If Obama and Sebelius had their way, Americans of a multitude of faiths would have been forced to violate their consciences and pay for abortion-causing drugs, contraceptives, and sterilizations. This landmark decision upholds our nation’s most deeply held tradition – that Americans cannot be forced by the Government to violate their own faith – thereby protecting the beliefs of the Hahns’ and the Greens’ families that life begins at conception.
“The First Amendment, indeed the entire Constitution, should be protected from the radical anti-religious liberty agenda of the Obama Administration. I applaud the Supreme Court for protecting religious beliefs, and I call on President Obama to go even further and eliminate this HHS mandate. Only by doing so can we protect the most cherished of all American freedoms and the heart and soul of our Constitution.”

Congressman Mike Pompeo wrote on his Twitter page, “There are a number of ways ‪#Obamacare is a disaster, but one of the worst is how it impacted people’s religious liberty. ‪#HobbyLobby ‪#SCOTUS.”