Conservatives Rally Across U.S. for ‘Religious Freedom’

Hundreds gathered on Capitol Hill and at rallies across the nation on June 8 in a double-barreled attack on President Obama's health care law and a mandate to require employers to provide insurance coverage of birth control.

Speakers such as Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and anti-abortion activist Lila Rose rallied conservatives in one of 160 coordinated noontime rallies across the country.

Bachmann, a former GOP presidential candidate, emphasized that the fight over the insurance mandate is not about birth control or women's rights, but the freedom to practice religion without government involvement.

“This is about, at its heart and soul, religious liberty first and religious liberty always,” she said. “We will fight this and we will win.”