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15 Jan 2006 11:48:09 AM |
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Ruling upholds state law requiring contraception coverage |
Ruling upholds state law requiring contraception coverage
http://albany.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2006/01/09/daily53.html
Albany Business Review - Albany,NY,USA
A state appeals court in Albany, N.Y., ruled Thursday that religious
groups must abide by a state law that they had complained forces them to
pay for contraception for employees in violation of their groups' religious
opposition to birth control.
Religious groups have contended since the Legislature and Gov. George
Pataki approved the Women's Health and Wellness Act in 2002 that their
constitutional rights to free exercise of their religion and the principle
of separation of church and state are being violated.
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The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
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American Theocrats - Past and Present
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The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
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respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
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