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Mitt Romney’s “Freedom of Religion” Problem

Mitt Romney's got a problem, when the discussion turns to opposing the mandate to provide contraception on the grounds of religious freedom. In the first Supreme Court case on the free exercise of religion clause of the First Amendment, Reynolds v US [98 U.S. 145 (1879)], George Reynolds argued that his religious beliefs should give him the freedom to ignore a law that is binding on others who don't hold those beliefs.
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Mitt Romney Is Financially Invested In The Birth Control He Now Opposes

US Politics / Liberal : Think Progress (last year)

Mitt Romney has attacked the Obama administration’s regulation requiring employers and insurers to provide reproductive health care services — including contraception — by arguing that the rule is undermining the religious liberties... Read Post

US Supreme Court Chooses Religious Freedom Over Government Discretion

Politics / US Politics : Big Government (last year)

This week the United States Supreme Court made a landmark unanimous decision that protected the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment. The decision, Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC, rejected an arg... Read Post

Federal Courts Split on Religious Liberty and Obamacare

Politics / US Politics : Big Government (6 months ago)

Can an American citizen exercise his religion through his privately-owned business? The fate of Obamacare’s disturbing HHS contraception mandate turns on that question, and now the federal courts are split on the answer regarding an... Read Post


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