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To: Marine_Uncle
Ah. I see your point. However the family that owns Hobby Lobby says the govt. has given them the choice of either perform an immoral act (pay for abortion pills, contraceptive and sterilizations for their employees) or shut down.

This is not right. Not only do churches have a 1st Amendment right to the Free Exercise of Religion, but individual citizens do too. That partiular Amendment to the Constitution begins with some of the most blessed words in hte English language, "Congress shall make no law..."

I don't think the govt. would dare to tell a business owned by an Orthodox Jewish family, for instance, that they had to open and do business on the Sabbath. Or be shut down.

Or to tell a business owned by a Muslim family, that they had to give their employees coupons for specifically Hams, Bacon and Pork Sausage as a benefit. Or be shut down.

And this happens to be not a bacon issue, but a life-and-death issue, literally, on which the govt. is instructing this business to do something they see as being accomplices to an abominable act.

I think Hobby Lobby is right: the government does not have the authority under the U.S. Constitution to conscript ANYBODY to renounce their moral code. Especially when there are other ways the govt. could distribute contraceptives and morning-after pills if they wanted to, e.g. they could hand the damned stuff out on the street if they wanted to, rather than coerce employers to offer them as a "benefit," when their religious, moral, and ethical belief forbids them to do so.

29 posted on 12/28/2012 5:50:38 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("Without justice, what else is the State but a great band of robbers?" - St. Augustine of Hippo)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I cannot see how the gov-mint can enact anything which will deprive any company or an individual the right to not make a living. The head muslim in charge has no leg to stand on! Only if we cave and allow this to happen.


33 posted on 12/28/2012 6:04:22 PM PST by tiger63
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To: Mrs. Don-o
e.g. they could hand the damned stuff out on the street if they wanted to

My guess is that the USSC will back Hobby Lobby 5-4 and then Uncle Obama will do exactly that (actually make it a behind the counter thing at pharmacies).

40 posted on 12/28/2012 6:27:27 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Your whole response, in particular "I think Hobby Lobby is right: the government does not have the authority under the U.S. Constitution to conscript ANYBODY to renounce their moral code." :

I'm not going to fight anyone here on particulars in their displeasure regarding this evil mess, Reid and Pelosi allowed to see the light of day.
All you wrote I can stand up and applaud, with no double standard.
I hate what has come to past as most all God loving Conservatives.
70 posted on 12/29/2012 4:53:49 AM PST by Marine_Uncle (I'm going John Galt.... But. Honor must be earned.)
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