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Richard Wolf, USA TODAY 9:36 a.m. EDT July 30, 2016
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court's defense of religious freedom may be on the decline.
Still reeling from the death of its most devout justice, Antonin Scalia, the high court has put preventing discrimination above protecting religion in a series of cases over the past year, from same-sex marriage to abortion and contraception.
It took an obscure order issued on the last day of the recent term for Justice Samuel Alito to drive home the point. By refusing to consider a family-owned pharmacy's objection to a Washington state regulation forcing it to stock and sell emergency contraceptives, he warned, the court was sending an "ominous sign."
"If this is a sign of how religious liberty claims will be treated in the years ahead, those who value religious freedom have cause for great concern." Alito said.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/07/30/supreme-court-religious-liberty-freedom-abortion-contraception/86819172/
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)feel like they can come to your house to solicit religion. Around here, anything that forces an autocratic viewpoint on a person has been tainted with ulterior purpose.
lindysalsagal
(20,730 posts)If you don't want to treat or serve people of different religions, QUIT YOUR JOB!
Delmette
(522 posts)+100000.
This is more accurate. Thank you.
mountain grammy
(26,648 posts)You and your 2 buddies. Your brand of "religious freedom" is anything but.
eppur_se_muova
(36,289 posts)Forcing others to live according to your own religious beliefs, when they have, through the democratic process, passed laws that clearly say they wish to do otherwise, is not devotion, but dictatorship.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I don't know what the writer meant by calling Scalia "devout," but I rarely recognized much of my childhood Catechism in his public utterances. Listening to Scalia hold forth on his allegedly religious beliefs and principles would have made Jesus want to drink gin right out of the cat's dish.
AwakeAtLast
(14,133 posts)you insufferable, holier-than-thou creep!
Democat
(11,617 posts)No one is being stopped from practicing their religion in America unless it breaks existing laws.
The right wing wants the US government to impose Christianity on all Americans. They want to use the power of the government to impose their personal religion on all citizens.