I am too - very nervous. If they follow their precedent (particularly a case written by Scalia a few years ago), then Hobby Lobby should lose, but they Court hasn't given a fuck lately, so I don't know. If Hobby Lobby wins, I CANNOT WAIT for a Muslim or Christian Scientist owned clothing store to not provide certain health insurance to their employees for religious reasons.
I think Roberts will be the author of the opinion and Hobby Lobby will win, but they will try to make the decision as narrow as possible - b/c if it applies beyond the ACA, it will have an awful impact.
I REALLY hope hobby lobby doesn't win. I cannot stand their practices and they ways take out a two page spread in the local newspaper during Christian Holidays.
REASON FOR THE SEASON and that sort of thing. I always feel like they're trying to shame people. But they're the ones with six aisles of Christmas junk starting in August.
I would hope with all my heart that SCOTUS sends a big F you to the owners of Crafts for Christians Hobby Lobby and tell them that the are fucking nutter for thinking that running a craft store allows them any sort of religious objection privilege.
And they are on my list of stores that I refuse to shop at because I refuse to support a company like this.
DH thinks it would be ludicrous if HL won. I agree, but I'm very nervous. Corporations as people, corporations with the same right to political expression as individuals ... I'm afraid that trend of allowing corporations power far beyond the individual will continue with this court.
Post by MixedBerryJam on Jun 30, 2014 9:22:50 GMT -5
I hope I'm wrong, but since this very Court has already ruled that corporations have other First Amendment protections, like speech, I have this horrible, terrible, no good, very bad feeling that they're going to be granted religious protection by this Court, too. I hope I'm wrong.
That's it. I am going to shame every single person I know who shops at HL and any other company that denies women the contraception tool of their choice under the guise of religious convictions. The idea that one's employer, because he/she goes to church, knows better than you and your doctors about your health care decisions is nuts.
Just like anyone who eats at Chick fil a should be shamed. It's fucking fast food not ambrosia. Get it from a company that doesn't discriminate and try to take rights from a whole group of people. And don't even get me started on the KKK pie.
Ugh, I think I need to take a break from the internet and take a walk. Between this decision and the CFA post fuckery this weekend...
I am in shock. I really didn't think they would do this. Really. I thought the precedent alone would be enough to scare them off even if they don't give a shit about women. Fuck.
Well, once they decided corporations had a free speech right, then I guess a religious freedom right wasn't too far behind.
Becoming less of a democracy and more of an oligarchy every day. Ironic that idiots think we are a socialist country when that couldn't be more incorrect.