<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 12:12 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span>> 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. <br>
</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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. <br>
<br>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.<br>
<br></div><div>  John K Clark<br></div><div><br><br><br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><br>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">What do you do then?  Do the Democrats really want to alienate the entire Catholic religion?  Do they *<b>really</b>* want to hand the Republicans *<b>that</b>* big an advantage?  I think not.  This court decision has saved O-care, for the time being.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">spike  <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 14, 2014 9:03 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list<br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] sendup of Hobby Lobby<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2014/07/21/140721sh_shouts_rudnick?utm_source=tny&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailyemail&mbid=nl_Daily%20%28217%29" target="_blank">http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2014/07/21/140721sh_shouts_rudnick?utm_source=tny&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailyemail&mbid=nl_Daily%20%28217%29</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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