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To: Olog-hai
The U.S. Justice Department is telling the Supreme Court that killing a human embryo by preventing the embryo from implanting in his or her mother’s uterus is not an “abortion” and, thus, drugs that kill embryos this way are not “abortion-inducing” drugs.

Even if they are correct as they define the words, that is irrelevant. As the owners of Hobby Lobby define the words, an embryo is a person, the drugs they are ordered to pay for kill that person, and the owners of Hobby Lobby have a religious objection to killing people. Whether or not an action violates Obama's allegedly Christian values is irrelevant to whether government compelling a real Christian to perform the same action is a violation of the First Amendment Free Exercise Clause.

42 posted on 03/24/2014 2:26:24 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Pollster1

The SCOTUS will find against Hobby Lobby. They’re simply a branch of government. Furthermore, the question of the limits of religious liberty was determined by the SCOTUS back in 1878.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_v._United_States

They doubled down on it in 1890, also indicating how far a majority could go to deprive a minority of its rights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Corporation_of_the_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-Day_Saints_v._United_States

That gets us to today.


55 posted on 03/24/2014 11:47:33 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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