Daily Kos: Can a corporation believe in God? The contraceptive mandate in court:
This morning, the DC Circuit ruled in favor of a challenge against the constitutionality of the ACA contraceptive mandate, finding that it would violate the religious free exercise rights of the Catholic co-owners of a pair of small for-profit food processing companies to force their companies to pay for such coverage. While the Court decided that the companies themselves had no free exercise rights as "persons" under the Constitution or the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, their owners could seek to vindicate those rights given the closely held nature of their ownership. The Court further determined that the reasons behind the contraceptive mandate were insufficiently compelling to override the owners' First Amendment rights.
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