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Let's not kid ourselves. We have religious police in America. It's of relatively recent origin, but we do have them. They don't (yet) take your life for violating the national religion's requirements, but they will take your freedom, your time, your money. Each time the government enforces it's religion of "neutral religious expression" it violates the tolerance that the Founders expected when they wrote the First Amendment. Each time someone is taken to court for praying, for having harmless signs, symbols, or items of religion that are ruled inappropriate because they violate the "religion of neutrality" and someone is "offended", then the religious police and the religious judiciary are enforcing their religion. Each time Hobby Lobby's are taken to court at the cost of millions of dollars simply to defend their religious worldview or have it stripped from them, then the religious police are enforcing the "religion of neutrality" that has been imposed on our nation.

And when the only ones not exempted are the Little Sisters of the Poor because they have religious objections to contraception, euthanasia, and abortion, then the "religion of neutrality" is being vindictive and indicating they have every intention of forcing their religion down throats and forcing believers to knowingly elevate the government and its acceptable religion above God.

Make no mistake "enforced neutrality" is NOT free exercise and IS an establishment of religion.

Well said, xzins.

Each time Hobby Lobby's are taken to court at the cost of millions of dollars simply to defend their religious worldview or have it stripped from them, then the religious police are enforcing the "religion of neutrality" that has been imposed on our nation.

In the Hobby Libby case, the three biddies leading the dissent in the SC, have abortion as their religion. They seem much like older women I know who view all politics through the lens of whether abortion will be limited, available, whathaveyou. They grew up in a time when abortions were illegal, and either participated in an abortion, or know someone who did. Their worldview is so colored with the horror of what they or their friends experienced, they don't want anyone else to go through that. They have no sense of right/wrong about killing a baby (and that maybe that was actually part of their horror), they just want clean clinics, ones that don't judge, and no limits.

They cannot be reasoned with. I see this in the line of reasoning coming from the women on the SC; they will force their religious views (abortion) on the rest of us, on Hobby Lobby, without even a thought that they have no legal authority to do so under our Constitution.

Make no mistake "enforced neutrality" is NOT free exercise and IS an establishment of religion.

I very, very strongly agree, dear brother in Christ!

Indeed, it is just a matter of time until the 7^th Circuit Court decision that atheism is a religion becomes a factor in a Supreme Court decision.

By the Supreme's decision in the 60's to remove God from the publicly funded schools (which then spread to all publicly funded venues) - the court established a-theism as the religion of the land. Not by referendum nor by legislation, but by judicial fiat - and that in direct contradiction to the First Amendment.