[ExI] sendup of Hobby Lobby

[John Clark]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 12:12 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

 > I see this as a far easier problem to deal with than the Catholic’s more
> fundamental opposition to any birth control of any kind.
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The pedophiles at the top of the Catholic Church may oppose birth control
of any sort but that doesn't mean that Catholic voters do. As far back as
1993 85% of American Catholics approved of birth control and it's probably
even higher  today.  And as a libertarian I have some sympathy with the
idea that the government shouldn't tell employers how to compensate their
employes, but it makes me mad that they can only ignore the law if they do
so for religious reasons, apparently the court thinks that non-religious
reasons are less noble.

I think it was a mistake to mention religious freedom at all in the
Constitution; as long as you've got freedom of speech and freedom of
assembly there is no need to single out freedom of religion for special
mention because you've already got it automatically.

  John K Clark






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What do you do then?  Do the Democrats really want to alienate the entire
> Catholic religion?  Do they **really** want to hand the Republicans *
> *that** big an advantage?  I think not.  This court decision has saved
> O-care, for the time being.
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