Give it a rest, Pab. You know bloody well that was the only legal outcome possible. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion (meaning, of course, the US was not going to be another C of E nation) or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. And what leftists like to believe — incorrectly, of course — is that the “free exercise of religion” is contained within the walls of our churches and synagogues. They substitute the word “worship” for “religion” and try to sell us on the concepts being identical. They aren’t even equivalent. Worship is a component of religion. So is living out one’s faith in the marketplace, which is why it is just as much a First Amendment infringement to force abortifacients on Hobby Lobby, Conestoga Wood Products, the Little Sisters of the Poor, Catholic Charities, and similar concerns, commercial and noncommercial, that are manifestations of a religious life lived out as it would be to force everyone to belong to the C of E. As someone else has said somewhere else, Catholic Charities, to use as an example, doesn’t exist because Catholics need charity; it’s because it’s part of our Catholic practice to practice charity, no matter to whom. And yes, I am Catholic, and proud to be so.
Give it a rest, Pab. You know bloody well that was the only legal outcome possible. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion (meaning, of course, the US was not going to be another C of E nation) or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. And what leftists like to believe — incorrectly, of course — is that the “free exercise of religion” is contained within the walls of our churches and synagogues. They substitute the word “worship” for “religion” and try to sell us on the concepts being identical. They aren’t even equivalent. Worship is a component of religion. So is living out one’s faith in the marketplace, which is why it is just as much a First Amendment infringement to force abortifacients on Hobby Lobby, Conestoga Wood Products, the Little Sisters of the Poor, Catholic Charities, and similar concerns, commercial and noncommercial, that are manifestations of a religious life lived out as it would be to force everyone to belong to the C of E. As someone else has said somewhere else, Catholic Charities, to use as an example, doesn’t exist because Catholics need charity; it’s because it’s part of our Catholic practice to practice charity, no matter to whom. And yes, I am Catholic, and proud to be so.