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DOJ: Family Can't Run Their Business as Catholics

annfan_777 Wrote: Jul 25, 2012 3:24 PM

All the anti-Catholic bigots on here should actually stop and think for once instead of flying off with the usual dull, ignorant rhetoric. What if the title of the column was "Family can't run their business as Baptists" or any other denomination? The point is the same. All religious people are in this fight together, and the Catholics have engaged the government now and are willing to stand up for religious freedom. They deserve our support 100%.

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DOJ: Family Can't Run Their Business as Catholics

William, Paul and James Newland and their sister, Christine Ketterhagen, who together own Hercules Industries, have no right to conduct their family business in a manner that comports with their Catholic faith.

The federal government can and will compel them to either surrender their business or to engage in activities the Catholic faith teaches are intrinsically immoral.

This is exactly what President Barack Obama's Justice Department told a U.S. district court in a formal filing last week.

Never before has an administration taken such a bold step to strip Americans of the freedom of conscience -- a...

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