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DOJ: Family Can't Run Their Business as Catholics

Lighthouse52 Wrote: Jul 25, 2012 8:52 AM

American citizens with Christian values and those who respect freedom of conscience and freedom of religion as guaranteed under the Constitution must band together and fight against this evil or this evil will prevail and go from bad to worse, like a malignant cancer, until it takes the life of the republic.

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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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