Tomorrow, February 16, the U.S. House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing addressing the question, "Has the Obama Administration Trampled on Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Conscience?" It starts at 9:30 a.m. in Room 2154, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C., but it will be streamed live at this link. Witnesses include Bishop William E. Lori, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee for Religious Liberty; John Garvey, President of Catholic University; and Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, Yeshiva University's Director of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought. The president of Belmont Abbey College, Dr. William Theirfelder, will also testify. Belmont Abbey is one of the religious organizations targeted by the HHS "contraceptives" mandate and is being represented in a federal lawsuit challenging the mandate by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, an organization that has spent millions of dollars in recent decades working to eradicate religious symbols and expression from public life, will be represented at the hearing by its executive director Barry Lynn.








