(RNS) Dozens of protesters marched briefly from the Supreme Court to the U.S. Capitol Tuesday (Sept. 9), supporting the Secular Coalition for America’s “Knit a Brick” campaign. More than 1,600 crocheted and knitted “bricks” — created or sponsored by people from all 50 states and five other countries — were sewn into three “walls” to symbolize the rebuilding of the wall of separation between religion and government after the court’s recent Hobby Lobby decision. The court ruling granted corporations religious exemptions in covering women’s contraception.
Religion News Service photos by Adelle M. Banks
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- Three separate rolls of knitted bricks lay on the steps of the Supreme Court Tuesday (Sept. 9) before Secular Coalition for America protesters of the recent Hobby Lobby decision unfurled them out and marched across the street to the Capitol. More than 1,600 supporters from all 50 states and five other countries mailed or sponsored the knitted segments for the “Knit a Brick” event. Religion News Service photo by Adelle M. Banks
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- Austin Cooper, director of operations for the Secular Coalition for America, makes last-minute repairs to an edge of the “wall” of knitted bricks that protesters with the Secular Coalition for America carried from the Supreme Court to the Capitol on Tuesday (Sept. 9) to protest the Hobby Lobby decision. Religion News Service photo by Adelle M. Banks
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- Austin Cooper, director of operations for the Secular Coalition for America, makes last-minute repairs to an edge of the “wall” of knitted bricks that protesters with the Secular Coalition for America carried from the Supreme Court to the Capitol on Tuesday (Sept. 9) to protest the Hobby Lobby decision. Religion News Service photo by Adelle M. Banks
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- Amelia Vogel, a representative of the American University Humanist Community, prepares to march Tuesday (Sept. 9) with the “wall” of knitted bricks that protesters with the Secular Coalition for America carried from the Supreme Court to the Capitol in a protest of the court’s recent Hobby Lobby decision. Religion News Service photo by Adelle M. Banks
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- A view of a portion of the “wall” of the knitted bricks created by protesters with the Secular Coalition for America who objected to the recent Hobby Lobby decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. It was carried to the Capitol during a march by protesters on Tuesday (Sept. 9). Religion News Service photo by Adelle M. Banks
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- Austin Edwards, left and Lance Menard, atheists from Flint, Mich., traveled to Washington, D.C., to take part in the “Knit a Brick” campaign of the Secular Coalition for America. They joined dozens of others Tuesday (Sept. 9) in marching from the Supreme Court to the Capitol to protest the court’s recent Hobby Lobby decision. Religion News Service photo by Adelle M. Banks
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- Protesters with the Secular Coalition for America gather Tuesday (Sept. 9) in front of the Supreme Court for the “Knit a Brick” march to the U.S. Capitol. They objected to the court’s recent Hobby Lobby decision. Religion News Service photo by Adelle M. Banks
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- Protesters of the recent Hobby Lobby decision march Tuesday (Sept. 9) from the Supreme Court to the U.S. Capitol, carrying knitted bricks created by people across the globe. Religion News Service photo by Adelle M. Banks
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- The U.S. Capitol, as seen Tuesday (Sept. 9) from behind a knitted brick in a “wall” created by protesters of the recent Hobby Lobby decision by the Supreme Court. Some opponents to the decision joined the Secular Coalition of America in marching from the court to the Capitol. Religion News Service photo by Adelle M. Banks
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- Protesters of the recent Supreme Court Hobby Lobby decision line up Tuesday (Sept. 9) with their “wall” of knitted bricks outside the U.S. Capitol. They marched from the court to the Capitol. Religion News Service photo by Adelle M. Banks
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- Amelia Vogel, a representative of the American University Humanist Community, holds one end of the “wall” of knitted bricks carried in a march Tuesday (Sept. 9) from the U.S. Supreme Court to the Capitol to protest the court’s recent Hobby Lobby decision. Religion News Service photo by Adelle M. Banks
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- Robert Hoffman of Baltimore, a supporter of the Secular Coalition for America, pointed to one of the five bricks he knitted for the “wall” carried by protesters from the U.S. Supreme Court to the Capitol on Tuesday (Sept. 9). They objected to the court’s recent Hobby Lobby decision. Religion News Service photo by Adelle M. Banks
