With the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act, aka “Obamacare,” we now face an egregious threat to personal liberty and religious freedom. It gives government bureaucrats alarming power over individuals’ health care decisions and will lead to conflicts of conscience.

Contrary to their promises to Congress, as well as to the general public, proponents of Obamacare have succeeded in arguing to the Supreme Court that the individual mandate is now a federal tax. People of faith will now be forced to either abandon their religious beliefs or resist and be fined with a “tax,” as this onerous law forces insurance companies to pay for abortion-inducing drugs, contraception and sterilizations, and many types of abortions.

We urge our national lawmakers to repeal the law and take a reasonable approach to reforming what’s wrong with health care. The federal reach into the lives of American citizens is of grave concern, and the accompanying threats to freedom of conscience challenge the very concept of liberty.