[TigersEye]

In ruling against the companies last month, U.S. District Judge Joe Heaton said churches and other religious organizations have been granted constitutional protection from the birth-control provisions but that "Hobby Lobby and Mardel are not religious organizations."

So individuals don't qualify for 1st Amendment protections? How Soviet of you, Comrade Heaton.

[Tublecane]

I don’t recall the Constitution referring to the free exercise of religious organization. Then again, I am not a judge and lack the secret decoder ring they use to read laws.