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Katashi_itto

(10,175 posts)
Wed Jul 2, 2014, 05:51 PM Jul 2014

Supreme Court Rules JCPenney Allowed to Sacrifice Employees to Appease Cthulhu

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July 1, 2014 - Citing the newly-established precedent of corporate-religious exemption, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in favor of JCPenney, upholding the company's right to sacrifice pure-hearted employees in order to assuage the Dread Lord Cthulhu, Bringer of Madness.

The Penney estate, devout cultists and owners of the multibillion-dollar chain of mid-range department stores, joined by CEO Mike Ullman, sued the government in 2012 when new federal employee protections made it illegal for them to hire virgin maidens for the sole purpose of spilling their blood on the Altar of the Cosmos, with the hope that such an offering will prolong the Great Old One's slumber in the sunken city of R'lyeh.

“We're not opposed to the practice of protecting and celebrating life set forth by your quaint, human Biblical standards,” said Ullman last week on Lou Dobbs Tonight. “But JCPenney is not that sort of company, for in his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming. We see through the insignificance of your primitive ape society to the coming storm of insanity that is His rise.”

The case of Thurston v. JCPenney was decided 5-4, with the traditionally conservative justices forming the majority. Justice Kennedy, often the court's sole swing vote, was seen by reporters to be looking about warily and muttering to himself through much of the proceedings, as if hearing voices that weren't there.

- See more at: http://www.moonmontchronicle.com/supreme-court-rules-jcpenney-allowed-to-sacrifice-employees-to-appease-cthulhu.html#sthash.q8cV9ziU.dpuf
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Supreme Court Rules JCPenney Allowed to Sacrifice Employees to Appease Cthulhu (Original Post) Katashi_itto Jul 2014 OP
I love good satire Gothmog Jul 2014 #1
My religious beliefs require me to dispatch Gothmog on the field of battle, Maedhros Jul 2014 #2
Lol! Katashi_itto Jul 2014 #3
 

Maedhros

(10,007 posts)
2. My religious beliefs require me to dispatch Gothmog on the field of battle,
Wed Jul 2, 2014, 07:41 PM
Jul 2014

since he killed my dad.




(Note: this is a reference to Tolkien fiction)

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