[xzins]

why it should be allowed to fine these organizations for refusing to distribute abortion-inducing drugs and devices and other contraceptives.

Religious-based groups can't be forced to violate their conscience regarding abortion.

That same logic should seem to cover businesses and homosexual wedding cakes, but it doesn't.

[Alberta's Child]

Interestingly, some of these groups (Catholic Charities, for example) are going to lose in this case because they cannot demonstrate that they are actually religious organizations.

This is how Catholic Charities lost a similar case in California when it came to a state government mandate involving contraception and/or same-sex "marriage." The court applied a very objective set of standards, and determined that Catholic Charities didn't meet even a bare minimum standard for a "religious-based group." The court basically ruled that the group is a large non-profit business operation with no religious foundation at all.

[lepton]

Two of the three clauses of the First Amendment are clearly violated by that. Why on earth should people be compelled to create art, even if they ARE incorporated.