ADF files support for religious health care sharing ministries in Colorado
Wednesday, Mar 26, 2025
The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel and Vice President of Appellate Advocacy John Bursch regarding a friend-of-the-court brief ADF attorneys filed Tuesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries v. Conway. In the case, a group of Christian nonprofits is challenging a Colorado law that specifically targets religious health care sharing ministries with burdensome reporting requirements designed to defame or prosecute them. ADF attorneys filed on behalf of three Colorado citizens who are concerned the law will cause them to lose access to religious health care sharing networks of which they are members:
“Health care sharing ministries serve like-minded members and allow both the ministry and its members to live out their Christian faith in the context of bearing one another’s burdens and sharing health care expenses. Colorado’s vindictive law, however, threatens to extinguish this choice for many religious believers in the state. The lower court’s decision wrongly treats these nonprofits like commercial health insurance entities bound by federal law and burdens their First Amendment rights. As we explain in our brief, our clients all benefit from these ministries, and allowing Colorado’s unconstitutional law to stand creates severe harm to their free-exercise, free-association, and free-speech rights. We urge the 10th Circuit to respect First Amendment freedoms and overturn the lower court’s ruling.”
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