The Hobby Lobby decision is disappointing.

I guess the religious rights of a corporation is more important than the religious rights of an individual worker.

What if healthcare, in general, was against Hobby Lobby's religion?

What if healthcare, in general, was against Hobby Lobby's religion?

The Hobby Lobby decision is disappointing.

I guess the religious rights of a corporation is more important than the religious rights of an individual worker.

The Hobby Lobby decision is disappointing.

I guess the religious rights of a corporation is more important than the religious rights of an individual worker.

Obviously it's terrific that they didn't go the other way on this.

It seems to me, though, that it's only a matter of time until law enforcement comes up with some workaround to it ... generally under the "public safety" moniker ... an exception that has all but .

What religious rights do their workers lose out on here?

There were two possible outcomes here. Either employees had the right to access to certain types of healthcare based on their own religious beliefs and not the corporation's religious beliefs or the corporation was found to have the right to deny healthcare based on the corporation's religious beliefs.

Either way, someone(or something) was going to lose a religious right. The answer here was the worker who now has their healthcare effected based on the religious beliefs of a corporation.

There were two possible outcomes here. Either employees had the right to access to certain types of healthcare based on their own religious beliefs and not the corporation's religious beliefs or the corporation was found to have the right to deny healthcare based on the corporation's religious beliefs.

Either way, someone(or something) was going to lose a religious right. The answer here was the worker who now has their healthcare effected based on the religious beliefs of a corporation.

So your understanding is that the employees of Hobby Lobby are no longer afforded the right to buy birth control?

The Hobby Lobby decision is disappointing.

I guess the religious rights of a corporation is more important than the religious rights of an individual worker.

No. This case was about their insurance being forced to cover it. They no longer have the right to have it covered by insurance. Hobby Lobby was given the right to deny based on religious reasons. It's only logical that this means that the hypothetical worker was then denied the right to have it paid for because of religious reasons.

After I thought some more on this hasn't the court been consistent in recent times that corporations have the same rights a people. The biggest ruling in this area was with political spending rights if I have it right. Therefore, they held these rare closely held corps have their right.

I this the part about the least restrictive thing held that the corp does not disallow people from getting contraceptives just that they do not pay. It would be way different if they forbid employees from any aspect of heath care they objected to.

But their access to birth control is not denied.

So are you saying that a corporation is constitutionally bound to pay for an employees birth control?

But their access to birth control is not denied.

So are you saying that a corporation is constitutionally bound to pay for an employees birth control?

No offense, that's an absurd trollish question. A corporation is constitutionally prohibited from denying birth control on religious grounds in a society where the majority of health care is administered through employer-sponsored health plans. Or at least it was. Any rational person who happens not to be some kind of religious zealot, and who celebrates this decision for any other reason than cheering for their "team" has absolute shit for brains. The decision is a total and complete embarrassment to anyone with an IQ over 85.

I didn't say it was.
Based on the law it was. That changed though with the ruling.

I didn't say it was.
Based on the law it was. That changed though with the ruling.

Look I do not care about birth control but Rick I do not get your thought. Based on the law prior to the ruling the corp was legally bound to provide birth control not constitutionally. What the court said was they are not obligated based on their take on it.

Again, if the corp forbid them to get/use birth control then you would be right.