Religious Freedom? Or A License To Discriminate?

Alan: Before we become paralytically purist, let's remember recent history: 

"U.S. Federal Government Forced Mormonism To Renounce A Central Creed"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/02/united-states-federal-government-forced.html

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GENE ROBINSON: Religious freedom or a license to discriminate? "There were many who disagreed with the Supreme Court's Loving vs. Virginia ruling that interracial marriages were legal, mostly on religious grounds. But anti-miscegenation laws (still on the books in 13 states at the time of the ruling) were struck down by the Supreme Court, and regardless of one's personal religious beliefs about interracial marriage, those marriages had to be allowed and recognized. Now imagine if business corporations were treated as people, capable of exercising religion and such an exemption/license to violate anti-discrimination laws were granted....Further, imagine what would happen if the owners of Hobby Lobby and others were allowed to deny their employees a health insurance plan which included access to contraceptives, to which they object. Would other business owners be allowed to deny employees health insurance plans that covered blood transfusions? Could owners who objected to vaccinations, on religious grounds, delete such healthcare provisions from their coverage? How would judges go about drawing these lines? There would be no end to the chaos that would ensue, making the country virtually ungovernable." Gene Robinson in The Daily Beast.

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