Demanding Religious Oppression in Louisville
Yes, freedom of religion is also freedom from religion.
Which is why any claim that your religion allows you to violate a civil law is unconstitutional, un-democratic and un-American.
Greg Kocher at the Herald:
A Rally for Religious Freedom at Lexington's Phoenix Park on Saturday featured speakers who questioned a new federal mandate requiring religious organizations to provide health care coverage for employees that covers abortion drugs and contraception.First, the law applies to the businesses and organizations run by religious groups: catholic hospitals, muslim soup kitchens, baptist childcare, jewish schools. Churches, mosques and temples themselves are exempt.
The Obama administration has "seized the power to define what faith is, who the faithful are, and when, how and where we get to practice our faith," said Bryan Beauman, a lawyer for Alliance Defending Freedom, a socially conservative legal consortium.
About 40 people turned out to listen to five speakers at the rally, the third in Lexington since the administration's Jan. 20 announcement regarding implementation of the 2010 health care law.
As Charlie Pierce puts it, catholic bishops have no right to deny contraceptive coverage to the minimum-wage housekeepers who keep their hospitals clean.
Secondly, note that the freakazoids have no objection to religious organizations paying for Viagra. No, no war on women going on here, not at all.
Ensuring that employees have basic health coverage is not "seiz(ing) the power to define what faith is, who the faithful are, and when, how and where we get to practice our faith," that's protecting the religious freedom of the 99 percent of us who are not freakazoid motherfuckers.
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