lol And on the eighth day the lord said: "let there be a pleasing offering of refractory and ceramic raw materials that enrich thy families and society” ? Blink blink.

I freely admit that our legal system here in the States is by no means perfect...nor is the system in any other country that I am aware of.

That being said, I think it is preposterous to involve the state or business or religious groups, or any other group associations with having to share the cost or outright pay for things like birth control (which is very very cheap anyway) or abortions or cosmetic surgery (face lifts boob jobs gastric bypass etc) for other than corrective measure like in the case of dis-figuration from car accidents and the like.

As for freedom of speech...well its freedom of speech. It should be protected regardless of it's content...that includes everything from porn to religion.

Additionally imho: money, advertising, lobbying (paying politicians off to get the vote you want) and any and all kinds inequality generating modifiers to such freedoms of speech should all be restricted, transparent and or deleted from protection under the law.