unlike Doug, I do not believe corporations are people, that they have
religious believes or that they have souls (that is of course an
understatement); corporations are legal vehicles designed to make money
for the investors and to shield the investors from having to use their
own assets to cover losses and debts.
I do not believe any faith thinks Hobby Lobby has an immortal soul, can
go to heaven or hell, or that it prays. So, I guess I am unpersuaded that
there can be an exemption issue for a corporation
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From: Douglas Laycock <dlayc...@virginia.edu>
To: Paul Finkelman <paul.finkel...@yahoo.com>; Law & Religion issues for Law
Academics <religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu>; "Scarberry, Mark"
<mark.scarbe...@pepperdine.edu>
Sent: Sunday, July 6, 2014 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: On a different strand of the seamless web
Unlike Paul, I think the exemption issues and the government-sponsored prayer
issues are very different.
On Sun, 6 Jul 2014 01:36:45 -0700
Paul Finkelman <paul.finkel...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Doug's point here seems to encapsulate what is the problem for so many of us.
>Those in the majority would make the rest of us burn incense, or listen to
>their prayers, or pay for their prayers or pray with them, or obey their views
>on sex and marriage and children, and we can go on and on. And many in the
>majority forget that they were once persecuted, whether it was Christians
>killed in Rome or Baptists whipped in Virginia, and now that they have the
>power, they would impose it on us, whether it is health care if you are
>unfortunate enough to have to work for Hobby Lobby or prayers if you are
>unfortunate enough to need something form the government of the Town of Greece.
>
>Paul Finkelman (writing from Granada, where the evidence and reminders of
>religious intolerance and persecution is everywhere)
>
>
>
>________________________________
> From: Douglas Laycock <dlayc...@virginia.edu>
>To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics <religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu>;
>"Scarberry, Mark" <mark.scarbe...@pepperdine.edu>
>Sent: Sunday, July 6, 2014 1:01 AM
>Subject: On a different strand of the seamless web
>
>
>On Sat, 5 Jul 2014 11:02:00 -0700
>"Scarberry, Mark" <mark.scarbe...@pepperdine.edu> wrote:
>
>
>* * * *
>Christians died rather than burn a pinch of incense to the emperor.
>
>
>Yes they did. A point they entirely forget as they impose brief Christian
>prayer services on their fellow citizens at public meetings, and insist that
>it's no big deal to go through of motions of praying to a God you don't
>believe in.
>
>Douglas Laycock
>Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law
>University of Virginia Law School
>580 Massie Road
>Charlottesville, VA 22903
> 434-243-8546
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