And Hobby Lobby is absolutely right! The Obama administration refuses to see the point, in effect delimiting "freedom of religion" to mean only "freedom of worship." There's a huge difference between "freedom of religion and "freedom of worship." Businesses that want to run on biblical principles, reflecting a Christian ethos, should not be forced to give out "morning after" pills if it goes against their conscience. Kathryn Lopez writes:
“It’s more than just work,” Mart Green, treasurer of Hobby Lobby and CEO of Mardel, a Christian bookstore chain, says in a video explaining why his family simply cannot and will not comply with the Department of Health and Human Services mandate insisting they provide abortion drugs to their employees. As of yesterday, Hobby Lobby, the arts and crafts chain, is in violation of federal law. Barack Obama’s Department of Justice has been arguing that religious liberty doesn’t have the role in the life of a business. But the Green family knows that their business lives cannot be cut off from their lives as Christians. And so the business makes decisions seeking to strengthen family, seeking to lives integrated lives, as Mart Green explains:
The Green family provides a real lesson to a culture that has become all too content compartmentalizing religion. And now by government mandate …
The Family Research Council has commented on the Holly Lobby dispute with the coercive Obama administration. Pull quote:
The HHS Mandate is a gross violation of the religious beliefs of the Green family. The issue before the courts here is whether the Greens religious-liberty rights include running their secular, for-profit business consistent with their religious beliefs. In other words, is religious liberty just what you do in church on a Sunday morning, or does it include what you do during the week at your job? [more....]