Can Corporations Pray?

The Affordable Care Act, the Contraception Mandate, and the Free Exercise Rights of For-Profit Corporations

Summary

In the 225 years since the ratification of the Constitution, the Supreme Court has never held that secular, for-profit corporations are entitled to the Constitution’s protection of the free exercise of religion. As we explain more fully in this issue brief, it should not do so now.

 

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