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Sheepshank

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7. If every business owner is permitted exemptions from any law, citing religious freedoms

Reply to NightWatcher (Original post)

Tue Mar 25, 2014, 07:00 PM

Mar 2014

then those of us without a church are completely disenfranchised. In order to be treated equally, so there is no arbiraty and capricious application of the law, athiests, agnostics and those without a registered church should also be able to define what laws they feel applies to them, and does not apply to their moral compass.

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If corporations are people and given religious freedom, what else will they want? [View all] NightWatcher Mar 2014 OP

Freedom from all US laws and regulations frazzled Mar 2014 #1

They will claim religious exemption from Min-wage, overtime, anti-discrimination, Insurance,1 Vincardog Mar 2014 #2

My corporation worships Zog and he doesn't believe in a minimum wage NightWatcher Mar 2014 #4

My religion is the FSM and the FSM says that paying wages is the cause of all things evil. Vincardog Mar 2014 #6

In the current scenario Hobby Lobby is trying to dictate how EMPLOYEES use their compensation. GeorgeGist Mar 2014 #3

I think you have inadvertently hit on something!!! ret5hd Mar 2014 #5

If every business owner is permitted exemptions from any law, citing religious freedoms Sheepshank Mar 2014 #7

More tax exemptions nt LiberalEsto Mar 2014 #8

As I've said a buzillion times before, muntrv Mar 2014 #9