Posted on 05/28/2012 8:27:33 AM PDT by Mark Landsbaum
More than 40 Catholic individuals, dioceses and universities have sued the Obama administration to prevent trampling of their First Amendment right to practice religion by forcing them to pay for abortifacients, sterilizations, contraception, devices and pills that would violate their religious beliefs.
We would be stunned and alarmed if the courts reject their arguments, grounded as they are in the constitutionally protected right to free exercise of religion...
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Also, the wartime conscientious objector legal rule is precedent that religious conscience is a valid determinant in any constitutional arguments of conscience against the federal government.
It is sad when the government think itself so boundless in its powers, so unchained by its Constitution that the enumerated exceptions are where our few remaining rights resides.
Your values and morals are superfluous.
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