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True Blue Door

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Thu Jul 3, 2014, 03:16 PM Jul 2014

Dear SCOTU5: What if your religious beliefs require you to rob Hobby Lobby blind?

According to the five oligarchs who now apparently have carte blanche to rewrite the Constitution as they see fit, Hobby Lobby, Corporate Person, has a Constitutional right to rob its employees of the costs of contraception that federal law requires them to pay for on behalf of the religious beliefs of its owners. So I have a question.

If that naked theft on behalf of religious belief is constitutionally protected, what if someone has a religious belief requiring them to rob Hobby Lobby? Is that protected?

In that case, would it be a protected religious expression to, say, swarm a Hobby Lobby store with dozens of people simultaneously and strip its shelves bare?

Would it be a legitimate expression of religious liberty to partake in the sacrament of its merchandise falling off trucks and cargo ships?

Personally, I think I'm having a religious awakening to the fact that God wants building inspectors, fire inspectors, and OSHA inspectors to take a special interest in the premises and practices of this business.

And who says that filing Federal Trade Commission complaints by the thousand cannot be a spiritually enlightening experience?

Any Hobby Lobby employees who hold these religious beliefs should exercise their SCOTU5-created rights by developing Holy Amnesia as to where they left critical paperwork whose absence will cause their employer large amounts of money.

Woops, sorry, the Lord giveth inventory information and the Lord taketh away inventory information.

I'm sorry, Sir, I didn't mean to delete the entire company's corporate accounts information. It's just I have this religious belief that hitting the Delete button is a sacred ritual.

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Dear SCOTU5: What if your religious beliefs require you to rob Hobby Lobby blind? (Original Post) True Blue Door Jul 2014 OP
Sorry, your "beliefs" are less than Hobby Lobby's "beliefs," so YOU LOSE! blkmusclmachine Jul 2014 #1
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