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    Gabriele Taylor was my undergraduate philosophy tutor at St Anne’s College, Oxford from 1989-1992. I remember her as an incisive…

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Intelligent write-up about Hobby Lobby issues…

by journalist Dan Fisher at Forbes.  I talked to him prior to the perplexing injunction on behalf of Wheaton, but he integrated that effectively.  And Justice Sotomayor gets it exactly right in the bit he quotes:  it really is preposterous on its face that anyone's free exercise of religion is burdened by a bit of paperwork (if only it were so–I might find God!).  (The 7th Circuit disposed of the other argument in the Notre Dame case–Justice Sotomayor noted the relevant bit, as does Mr. Fisher.)

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