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Hobby Lobby, Corporate Personhood, and Vampires

The Hobby Lobby court ruling is   bullshit. Here's  why  it is bullshit:  "Believing with you that  religion is a matter which lies solely between [Woman] & [her] [ Hathor ] (God),  that [she]  owes account  to none other  for [her] faith or [her] worship, that  the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions,  I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should  'make no law respecting an establishment of religion,  or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State."   - Thomas Jefferson in a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802. A separation between church and state in America was encouraged by Jefferson because he was intelligent enough to know that religious dogma is essentially  an opinion  and that opinion's should ...