(July 11, 2014 at 7:57 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote:Then your government is doing it wrong.(July 11, 2014 at 4:31 pm)Blackout Wrote: By a matter of coherence and equality, either you don't favor a specific religion or you favor all of them, if Christians can be conscious objectors so can people who profess different religions. This should be the general rule, but since I'm not American I may be wrong.
No, you hit the nail on the head.
Our Federal Constitution's Amendment #1 states "Congress shall make no law establishing a religion"
Playing favorites for one religion over another is a blatant violation of our Constitution. The Supremes tried to spell out in their ruling that this was only a special exception for religious beliefs about birth control but they can't do that.
I suspect that had the Hobby Lobby case been about a Muslim owned business wanting to make their female workers wear a hajib, the ruling might have gone differently.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
