In an encouraging win for religious liberty, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of the Little Sisters of the Poor and its right to be exempt from Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate. The Little Sisters have spent seven years in court fighting for a religious exemption from the mandate. The majority opinion, which Justice Clarence Thomas penned, is an encouraging step toward honoring religious objectors and their deeply held beliefs when it comes to absurd but supposedly necessary issues such as mandated birth control.

In his opinion, Thomas wrote, “For over 150 years, the Little Sisters have engaged in faithful service and sacrifice, motivated by a religious calling to surrender all for the sake of their brother.” Thomas concludes, “We hold today that the Departments had the statutory authority to craft that exemption, as well as the contemporaneously issued moral exemption. We further hold that the rules promulgating these exemptions are free from procedural defects.”