Feds Ask Judge to Reconsider FLDS ‘Hobby Lobby’ Decision
More Fallout from the ridiculous Hobby Lobby decision.
The U.S. Department of Labor is asking a federal judge to reconsider his decision to exempt a member of the Fundamentalist LDS Church from answering questions about a child labor case.
U.S. District Court Judge David Sam recently ruled that FLDS member Vergel Steed did not have to answer questions, citing the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision on religious freedom in the “Hobby Lobby” case. In a court filing obtained by FOX 13, lawyers for the Labor Department asked him to reconsider.
“A party asserting that a belief or practice is religious has the burden of producing evidence to support that claim. In this case, the record does not support Steed’s allegation that his religious beliefs prohibit him from divulging all aspects of the internal affairs and organization of the FLDS Church and its commercial activities,” lawyers wrote.
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