Tyndale House Publishers, a Bible-only publishing house, filed suit against the government yesterday, arguing that the Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate violates the owners’ right to free exercise of religion.
“The federal government has deemed devout publishers of the Bible to be insufficiently ‘religious’ to enjoy religious freedom in America,” the complaint stated.
When I own a company, I’m going to suggest that paying people in anything but dead mice is a violation of my religious freedom.
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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I own a company and lawsuits cost more money than they’re worth…