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MohRokTah

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8. Religion is a belief.

Reply to unblock (Reply #2)

Tue Jul 1, 2014, 04:10 PM

Jul 2014

A corporation cannot hold any belief. IT is a legal fiction. It is incapable of feeling, of sensing, of thinking, so it is most certainly incapable of believing.

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Big flaw in Hobby Lobby decision is in assuming 'corporate personhoods' can hold religious belief [View all] bigtree Jul 2014 OP

Brilliant cerveza_gratis Jul 2014 #1

This seems a step toward sovereign corporations HereSince1628 Jul 2014 #5

granted two sets of speech rights bigtree Jul 2014 #6

That's the essential double dipping nature of corporate personhood HereSince1628 Jul 2014 #11

but the courts have long held that corporations have such rights unblock Jul 2014 #2

Religion is a belief. MohRokTah Jul 2014 #8

I assume God looks like a giant Walmart sense she made us in her image. Johonny Jul 2014 #3

If the owner's religion "extends" to the corporation ... dawg Jul 2014 #4

Exactly - ohheckyeah Jul 2014 #7

There's going to be a lawsuit about just that. Count on it. MohRokTah Jul 2014 #9

right, they should have relinquished their corporate personhood bigtree Jul 2014 #10

They were in such a hurry to grab a victory... Xolodno Jul 2014 #12