New Hope for Religion-Freedom Fighters

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Liberty University's legal complaint that the national health care law violates its religious freedom appeared all but dead. But then the Supreme Court revived the hopes of the private Christian school: The justices directed an appeals court to reconsider the university's challenge.

Liberty has religious objections to the requirement under the Affordable Care Act (popularly known as ObamaCare) that the Lynchburg, Va., university cover abortion drugs at no cost to employees.

That requirement is part of the "preventive services" mandate issued by the Department of Health & Human Services in implementing ObamaCare. This HHS requirement of free coverage of abortion- inducing …