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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Jul 3, 2014, 04:21 PM Jul 2014

Illinois Clergy Protest SCOTUS Ruling By Giving Out Condoms At Hobby Lobby [View all]

Source: TPM

CAITLIN MACNEAL – JULY 3, 2014, 2:24 PM EDT

A reverend in Illinois organized a demonstration to hand out condoms outside of a local Hobby Lobby store in order to protest the Supreme Court's ruling on contraception, the Daily Herald reported.

Rev. Mark Winters of the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Naperville, Ill., said it started out as a joke in a Facebook, but after he got a great response, he decided to organize a protest.

The group of demonstrators stood outside the store to hand out condoms donated by Planned Parenthood.

Winters told the Daily Herald that he wanted the protest to show that not all Christians oppose birth control. He also said he hoped to get people to question whether the Supreme Court's decision was fair to Hobby Lobby employees' religious freedom.

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