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Florida priest threatens to cancel employee health insurance as challenge to federal birth control decision

By | 12.02.11 | 4:32 pm | More from The Florida Independent

A Catholic priest in St. Petersburg is threatening to cut health insurance benefits from employees as a form of “civil disobedience” to challenge a recent decision by the federal government to include birth control in a list of preventive health care.

The decision, which is still being considered before it is finally More…