"in need of Christian employees."

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45. I'm so sorry idiot, but you're a secular business, not Christian

Unless your business is religion then you're a secular business. While there may be the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster there is no Church of the Sandwich Artist I'm aware of. The Hammond Group is incorporated at the leisure of a secular government (mostly) that grants an artificial entity its existence within that secular government's laws. The corporation is a wholly (not holy) separate artificial entity from its human owners. That artificial entity cannot have its 1st Amendment rights to practice religion infringed upon as it's not a human that practices a religion. It can no more go to a place of worship or espouse a religious philosophy than my dog. At least my dog is an animate being.

This is the problem with the Hobby Lobby and other corporations that do not want to provide birth control. They want to take all the advantages of corporations, being artificial entities, that shield the natural humans from legal and financial liabilities on a personal basis and provide favorable tax policy. They just don't want to abide by the rest of the law that they don't agree with. The owners of the corporation are not, in any way, having their religious beliefs infringed upon. Quite the contrary. They are infringing upon the beliefs of their employees. The owners can practice their religion freely. They can abstain from birth control, and same-sex marriage all they want. They can donate all they wish to their church and they can even proselytize on their business premises since it's a private business.

What they should not and cannot be allowed to do is force their beliefs on other people.