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How Hobby Lobby Funded Terrorism And Tried To Destroy Democracy

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

You Love Freedom, and It Always Is Good Things

The Alliance Defending Freedom is an anti LGBT group currently lobbying to make US law as much like Uganda's as possible. They provided Hobby Lobby and David Green with three lawyers in 2014 when the billionaire Hobby Lobby owner decided to strike a blow against birth control and the Affordable Care Act. This whole thing stemmed from the fact that the ACA required company health insurance plans to provide access to contraceptives. Crucially, the Green family insisted they did not object to paying for all kinds of contraceptives. Just the morning after pill, which they believe violated heavenly law for reasons I think are dumb.

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