Americans treasure the First Amendment because it protects our right to pray, study sacred texts and shape our lives by moral principles that we believe express the will of a divine being. We know that contemplating, questioning, embracing and practicing a religious faith is a profoundly personal experience shaped by intense reflection and often not a little anguish. It is peculiar, even absurd, to suppose that the framers of the U.S. Constitution intended to ensure that inanimate entities created for the economic advantage of their owners be guaranteed this same right to search for truth and meaning. The plaintiffs in this case may say that they are fighting for religious freedom, but really they are fighting to avail themselves of all the legal and economic benefits that accrue to corporations while simultaneously availing themselves of the protections granted to individual citizens by the First Amendment. Wrapping this attempt to create a privileged legal category for corporate entities in the cloak of religious freedom demeans that freedom and those who cherish it.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 22:20:42 +0000
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