"The Courts Are Going To Decide Whether Corporations Have A Right To 'Practice' Religion" [View all]

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The Courts Are Going To Decide Whether Corporations Have A Right To 'Practice' Religion

by Erin Fuchs at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/do-corporations-have-religious-rights-2013-1

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And Justice Samuel Alito has pointed out that corporations like The New York Times also have a right to free speech.

Still, it's not clear whether the First Amendment exempts corporations, or people, from following laws that violate their religious beliefs.

In its 1990 decision in Employment Division v. Smith, the Supreme Court said the right to exercise religion freely doesn't relieve people of the obligation to comply with a "valid and neutral law," Wendy Kaminer has pointed out in The Atlantic.

"If religious objections to contraception and sterilization merit an exemption from federal law," Kaminer wrote, "then so could religious objections to hiring gay people or single mothers (or married ones, for that matter)."

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