'What do Koch Industries and the Catholic hierarchy have in common? A determination to shift rights away from individuals and assign them to institutions.
In their campaign to block medical access to contraceptives, marriage equality and death with dignity, religious institutional leaders are going after a non-profit version of corporate personhood. They want the organizations they control to have the constitutional rights of natural persons (in this case freedom of conscience/religion) just like multinational corporations want the constitutional rights of natural persons (in their case, free speech). The only real difference is which rights they find most conducive to their ends.'
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