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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
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« on: July 28, 2014, 11:53:26 PM »

The Hobby Lobby decision is irrelevant to the Satanic case.  Hobby Lobby was based upon an interpretation of the scope of RFRA and not a generic application of the First Amendment's guarantee of Freedom of Religion.  However, back in 1997 SCOTUS already ruled in City of Boerne v. Flores that RFRA does not apply to the States, hence a RFRA claim to an exemption from State anti-abortion laws would be tossed based on City of Boerne.  Conceivably they could make a Federal case against any Federal anti-abortion laws, or possibly a State case against State laws in those States that have adopted their own version of RFRA.
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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
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« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2014, 07:59:53 PM »

Hell Scientology is actually a pretty legitimate religion in relation to Satanism. Satanism is as serious a "religion" as the Flying Spaghetti Monster. It's nothing but people of a selfish libertarian bent doing anti-Christian trolling.

Treating Satanism as a "religion" would be like allowing hardcore Star Wars fans who want to call themselves "Jedi" and claim "Jedi" as a religion like some did as a joke on the UK Census once to be considered a serious religion.
Let them all be considered religions. It's not the place of the American government to judge what is and what isn't a religion. See the first amendment.

I'm cool with that if we get rid of the tax free status that religious organizations get, because as-is what if the US recognizes Pastafarianism then like the Olive Garden converts to Pastafarianism to avoid paying taxes

I thought the Olive Garden was the Pastafarian analogue of Hell, or at the very least Purgatory.
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