Santorum: Corporations Have First Amendment Right To Deny Women Contraception Coverage

Debating Howard Dean on CNN, Rick Santorum stood up for the rights of corporations to deny health care coverage, claiming that is part of a company’s First Amendment rights.

…Santorum asserted that employees knew that Hobby Lobby’s owners were “very clear about their religious content.”

“I mean, the idea that the First Amendment stops after you walk out of church, that it doesn’t have anything to do with how you live the rest of your life, I don’t know very many people of faith that believes that their religion ends with just worship,” Santorum explained. “It ends in how you practice and live that faith.”

“And President Obama is saying, ‘No, once you step outside that church, I get to impose my values on you, your religious values don’t matter anymore, it’s my values that I can impose on you,'” the Pennsylvania Republican continued. “I don’t think that’s what the First Amendment stands for. And I don’t think that’s what the court will say.”

Dean, however, argued that the First Amendment allowed the “free exercise” of religion but did not allow companies to make health care decisions for others.

“It can’t enable you to force your religious views on other people,” he said.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.