In response to:

Could Dr. King Have Given the Inaugural Benediction?

kmassey Wrote: Jan 22, 2013 9:34 AM
Hobby Lobby is a business and falls under the laws governing a business. It is not a church or a faith base organization; regardless of what the owner's faith is.
Vincent107 Wrote: Jan 23, 2013 5:44 PM
So the first amendment that states "congress shall make no law ... prohibiting the free exercise [of religion]" only applies to churches and faith based organizations? Congress can make a law prohibiting the free exercise of religion when businesses are involved?
A business cannot force an individual to do things that go against a persons religious beliefs.
The owners who run Hobby Lobby believe that abortion kills an unborn albeit living child, yet you are fine with them being forced to violate their religious beliefs because they make up a business?

If any component of the Bill or Rights is up for grabs, then all of it is up for grabs.

The Rev. Louie Giglio, designated to give the benediction at this year’s presidential inauguration, has withdrawn, under apparent pressure, after the surfacing of remarks he made, some 25 years ago, about the sinfulness of homosexuality.

Note that the pastor of the evangelical Passion City Church in Atlanta has been pushed off the stage not because of a deed, but because of words he said -- words expressing a widely held Christian belief that homosexuality is a sin.

Let’s recall that freedom of religion appears in the First Amendment of our constitution, alongside the protection of freedom of speech.

So what kind...

Friday, May 24 | 06:26 AM ET
Friday, May 24 | 06:26 AM ET
Friday, May 24 | 06:26 AM ET
Friday, May 24 | 06:26 AM ET