richard09
Posts : 4250
Join date : 2013-01-16
 | | Subject: Satanists want Hobby Lobby-style religious exemption from anti-choice counseling laws Mon Jul 28, 2014 4:09 pm | |
| More! More! Satanists want Hobby Lobby-style religious exemption from anti-choice counseling laws - Quote :
- satanists are now using the Supreme Court’s sweeping Hobby Lobby decision to challenge coercive mandatory counseling laws by requesting a religious exemption for satanists (and non-satanists).
“While we feel we have a strong case for an exemption regardless of the Hobby Lobby ruling, the Supreme Court has decided that religious beliefs are so sacrosanct that they can even trump scientific fact,” Satanic Temple spokesperson Lucian Greaves said in a Monday statement. ”This was made clear when they allowed Hobby Lobby to claim certain contraceptives were abortifacients, when in fact they are not. Because of the respect the Court has given to religious beliefs, and the fact that our our beliefs are based on best available knowledge, we expect that our belief in the illegitimacy of state mandated ‘informational’ material is enough to exempt us, and those who hold our beliefs, from having to receive them.” |
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NoCoPilot
Posts : 20276
Join date : 2013-01-16
Age : 69
Location : Seattle
| | Subject: Re: Satanists want Hobby Lobby-style religious exemption from anti-choice counseling laws Mon Jul 28, 2014 5:22 pm | |
| This should be interesting. I'd love to see The Supremes codify Satanism as a protected religion. |
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