....that Hobby Lobby is, indeed, entitled to defend its practice of not funding insurance coverage of contraceptives without being subject to ruinous fines, and the judge even noted that it's akin to telling a kosher butcher to use non-kosher methods. Americans United for Separation of Church and State argued, via Barry Lynn, that it was akin to imposing the employer's religious beliefs on the employees.
Well, yes, in the same way that my employers have always imposed on my religious sensibilities in what they provide in benefits, or in the same way that kosher butcher might deny me Saturday overtime or the right to that ham and cheese sandwich at lunch, I guess. Lynn is showing the exquisite logical and moral sensibilities I've come to expect from those involved in the United Church of Christ.
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in my faith, i m required to 'stand opposed' to certain things. standing opposed is part of free excercise.
its not a complicated argument.
i dont think my kosher employer can rightfully deny my free excercise if i ate a ham and cheese sandwich on my lunch break...
yet, i do think he would be with his own free excercise to not allow it's provision in his cafeteria.
Gino; I'm thinking that some might argue that the end product would be contaminated. Maybe not kosher, but I'm guessing definitely Halal butchers.
Either way, I do know that a kosher butcher is going to deny me the right to work on Friday night or Saturday, and that my employers have always covered things we disagree with. Lynn certainly knows this, and in talking the way he does, he's simply proving that he's not opposed to religion in commerce. He's just opposed to ours.
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