Corporate religion is that what it is now? Corporations are houses of worship? This ruling is in direct conflict of the Bill Of Rights.
AMENDMENT 1
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise there of;
Notice the punctuation mark?
What we find is this is a complete statement, not a passive thought.
So are these SCOTUS judges grossly lacking in grammar skills? By their ruling on the Hobby Lobby case they in effect have passed a law establishing a religion.
This is the slippery slope Judge Ginsburg was referring to in her dissent. This ruling was made without regard to the beliefs of others; those employed by the corporation. Moreover, this ruling has the potential to greatly damage the reputation of Christianity as a whole.
An interesting look at this by Sally Kohn from The Daily Beast (excerpt below the link)-
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/02/hobby-lobby-sex-lies-and-craft-supplies.html
Richard Cizik of the National Association of Evangelicals: “When anyone can use religion to claim an exemption on anything, religion loses meaning. Rather than a personal belief embedded in our souls, faith would become a set of arbitrary rules any corporation could choose from to skirt the law.”
Moreover, Cizik warns, this “puts government in charge of deciding what is or isn’t religion.” That doesn’t sound very free, does it?
If I were the religious faithful, I would be fairly annoyed at 90 percent of corporate America chomping at the bit to use my deeply held values as an excuse for their own misdeeds. Also, while the Bible does not take a firm position on abortion or when life begins, Jesus is pretty clear on one point: “You cannot serve both God and money” (Luke 16:13 and Matthew 6:24).
http://www.biblestudytools.com/matthew/6-24-compare.html
Scroll down in the bible study tools for an overview of the passages, I find the first one rather interesting. It has to do with the 'hypocrisy and outward' show in religious duties; not making a show of it. A little farther down in verses 19-24 we find the reference to what I have alluded to in another post about the Conservative Evangelical movement.
did I piss you off? I will :)
Scroll down in the bible study tools for an overview of the passages, I find the first one rather interesting. It has to do with the 'hypocrisy and outward' show in religious duties; not making a show of it. A little farther down in verses 19-24 we find the reference to what I have alluded to in another post about the Conservative Evangelical movement.
did I piss you off? I will :)
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