[SaraJohnson]

When it comes to this extreme violation of my own ethics, I will disobey the State pig. I will keep doing my business until they put me in jail and when I get out of jail, I will continue to conduct my business in accordance with my own ethics. They can arrest me again and put me in jail again and when I get out... until I die. So help me God.

[NYer]

The Newland family owns and operates Hercules Industries, a Colorado-based corporation that manufactures heating, ventilation and air-conditioning equipment. Through their hard work and dedication, and through their willingness to reinvest their own money in building their family business, they have managed to create jobs for 265 people while exerting a positive influence on the communities they serve.

Catholic Ping
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[the invisib1e hand]

catholics put obama into office. catholics pushed for nationalized healthcare. Some of us told the bishops this would happen. they didn't listen.

So, really, it's a bitch when the Church's worst enemy is the Church.

[Salvation]

The Catholics can’t run a business? Yet the Cathy family can run Chick-fil A

[cport]

As posted on other thread...

"The First Amendment Complaint does not allege that the company is affiliated with a formally religious entity such as a church," said the Justice Department. "Nor does it allege that the company employs persons of a particular faith. In short, Hercules Industries is plainly a for-profit, secular employer."

"By definition," said the Justice Department, "a secular employer does not engage in any 'exercise of religion.'"

"It is well established that a corporation and its owners are wholly separate entities, and the Court should not permit the Newlands to eliminate that legal separation to impose their personal religious beliefs on the corporate entity or its employees," said the Justice Department.

I believe the recent SCOTUS decision pertaining to corporate entities expressing their first amendment rights, including freedom of religious speech, via campaign contributions established precedence and certainly entitles them to express their first amendment rights within the corporation.