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kiranon

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12. Those companies using religious beliefs to avoid women's

Reply to cali (Original post)

Fri Nov 1, 2013, 05:25 PM

Nov 2013

or others health issues should not receive any federal grants, subsidies or other help. It seems that any federal assistance should violate their religious beliefs as well. The left hand cannot grab what the right hand abhors on religious grounds.

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This Blows: Obamacare Birth Control Mandate Struck Down By Appeals Court Over Religious Freedom [View all] cali Nov 2013 OP

30 years of conservative appointments and obstruction have paid off handsomely. Warren Stupidity Nov 2013 #1

That is why Howard Dean's 50 state strategy was so important :( nt arthritisR_US Nov 2013 #9

I don't get it. How is it not imposing the brothers Roman Catholic beliefs sinkingfeeling Nov 2013 #2

you get it just fine cali Nov 2013 #4

Look who wrote the majority opinion: Janice Rodgers Brown cali Nov 2013 #3

"A grave moral wrong"... she is a piece of work. redqueen Nov 2013 #14

They need to appeal this to the entire DC Cir. Court Gothmog Nov 2013 #5

But will they? nt redqueen Nov 2013 #16

Francis and Philip M. Gilardi won't be providing contraceptives to their employees notadmblnd Nov 2013 #6

Because... Keefer Nov 2013 #13

Not to many companies big or small that pay ALL of their employees health insurance costs notadmblnd Nov 2013 #15

They're always "very special Christians." That's kind of the point nomorenomore08 Nov 2013 #17

Logic is wasted on these RWNJs lastlib Nov 2013 #22

I am so sick of Religion getting what they want get the red out Nov 2013 #7

Who wants to start a religion? KY5 Nov 2013 #8

I'd be game except I'm already a minister of 4 internet religions. n/t Chan790 Nov 2013 #11

Another reason capitalism sucks. If your employer is a RW religious wacko, you are unreasonably Zorra Nov 2013 #10

Those companies using religious beliefs to avoid women's kiranon Nov 2013 #12

"Mankind will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." nomorenomore08 Nov 2013 #18

Why does "freedom of Religion" ismnotwasm Nov 2013 #19

It's a bad ruling, and ... surrealAmerican Nov 2013 #20

kick. cali Nov 2013 #21