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By Fred Lucas, Apr. 4, 2014, The Blaze
The
First Amendment protects religious freedom, the primary argument against the
Obamacare contraception mandate. The same amendment also protects freedom of
association, mentioned nowhere in the legal case against it.
So some libertarians — who generally oppose the mandate — are
not entirely of one mind on the legal basis of the challenge in the Hobby Lobby
case awaiting a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court.
“As
a lawyer, I have to argue on what we have, and with the Religious Freedom
Restoration Act, we have a stronger chance of prevailing than with an argument
over freedom of association or even economic freedom,” said Ilya Shapiro, an
attorney with the Cato Institute, a prominent libertarian think tank. Shapiro
filed a brief in the Hobby Lobby case.
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