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Aside from Hobby Lobby, Chick-Fil-A is a great example of this. Their founder is a southern baptist, and the company's profits have been donated in the past to help fund anti-gay organizations. And thanks to the recent Citizens United ruling, they can also donate unlimited amounts of money to political candidates who also support their cause. That means politicians get more money for ads, more media coverage, and as much as they need to travel to whatever locations they want during election season. And the amount they receive may far outweigh that of other candidates. But if those companies are owned by someone who is strongly religious, they may stop funding these people and send money to people who do support their beliefs instead. Unfortunately, because of this, religious owners of corporations are now allowed to pull strings behind the scenes in America, and it has caused plenty of outrage because they often donate money to organizations that may discriminate against their very own employees, and their workers can't do anything about it except quit. (Wherein the company will save money by not having to pay them, and have the option to hire someone else instead.) The groups and politicians they support then lobby and vote to try and get laws passed which allow them to infringe upon the civil rights of others, and aim to make certain groups into second-class citizens through legal means. The Hobby Lobby case is just one of many such attempts to roll back laws to the way they were in 'the good old days' when very few people had all the rights they do now. |
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Yes I mad. I very mad. |
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