This should be a no-brainer. Instead, it is the text for a Stephen King horror thriller. The issue is whether corporations like Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood can opt out of funding abortions mandated by Ocare. The fallacy underlying the rationalization appears to be that there is a separation between church and money. It’s the first I’ve heard of it.
Regardless, the powers that are sitting on the face of The Wee People and concentrating powers in Washington at every turn are talking as if freedom of assembly only applies to the right to sit on wood pews before an altar where non-taxable donations are made. If people choose to join any other group, they must drop their faith (including their conscience, world view, and all else) at the doorstep.
Besides, corporations have personhood only for funding political campaigns. Haven’t you read the official corporate sign: Abandon all hope ye who enter?
Entrepreneurs and their friends join together to try to make some money, not to glom into a personless wad of political correctness, unless they’re Ben & Jerry. The money gives people the potential to create and give instead of loafing and taking. One must apply pretzel logic to conclude that making a living requires forfeiture of personal liberties and thought to consent to the religious beliefs of the state, that among these is Abortion is Cooooool.
Government is in effect presenting its little politically-incorrect subjects with the false dilemma of killing their consciences or going on the government dole. (Envision a huge government mouth with fangs going, “Bla ha ha ha!”)
