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In reply to the discussion: Interesting point that Jon Steward made concerning Hobby Lobby, China, and abortion [View all]beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)77. Scalia has no problem being a hypocrit as we well know
so we can wait and see what he says....but he does have a documented position on law and using any religion to violate it from 1990
from dailyKos
"....in a 1990 majority opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that Native Americans fired for smoking peyote as part of a religious ceremony had no right to reinstatement. It would be courting anarchy, Scalia wrote in Employment Division v. Smith, to allow them to violate the law just because they were religious objectors to it. An individuals religious beliefs, he continued, cannot excuse him from compliance with an otherwise valid law.
as the ACA is law and been upheld by the SC as the law of the land...the ruling may be interesting
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Interesting point that Jon Steward made concerning Hobby Lobby, China, and abortion [View all]
beachbum bob
Nov 2013
OP
Not "anti-Christianity," anti-religion yes but, not limited to being anti-Christian. eom
DonViejo
Nov 2013
#10
You can contact their customer service department and ask them that very question.
drm604
Nov 2013
#24
So it is okay for their Chinese employees to have abortions/birth control, even mandatory, but
DeschutesRiver
Nov 2013
#32
Never mind the hypocrisy - granting exemptions based on religious beliefs is just a bad idea.
Flatulo
Nov 2013
#40
I honestly believe that these rwfreaks wear their hypocrisy as a badge of honour...
Tikki
Nov 2013
#41
Apparently abortion is only immoral if it negatively affects their bottom line.
progressoid
Nov 2013
#45
Pat Robertson said in the Eighties that doing business with forced abortion China was okay...
freshwest
Nov 2013
#49
Thank you for this post, beachbum bob and welcome to DU, in case you haven't gotten
japple
Nov 2013
#60
"Obviously the sense of "entitlement" is twisted. Its good for me but not for thee"
BlueCaliDem
Dec 2013
#79