[right-wing agnostic]

I seriously doubt that the rulings in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties v. Sebelius will be ruled broadly in favor of religious liberty. I'm much more concerned about how Chief Justice Roberts will vote than I am about how Justice Anthony Kennedy will. I am personally an agnostic, but I am TOTALLY OPPOSED to having religious expression banished from our society. We must adhere to the original intent of the U.S. Constitution for our society to have any chance at survival./rwa

[MNDude]

Interesting opinion from an agnostic. May ask why you feel that way? (Why you fear loss of religious freedoms)

[Viennacon]

Expect a sane ruling from Scalia, Thomas, and Alito, in concurrance with a watered down, specified go ahead from the others.

That or they declare you have no religious freedoms.

[Pox]

As I posted in another thread, SCOTUS has a vested interest in ruling against Hobby Lobby, if for nothing more than to stay consistent in their ruling(s) upholding “oboamacare”.

[Amendment10]

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

As mentioned in related threads, what activist justices don't want anybody to know concerning the constitutionality of Obamacare is the following. With the exception of the federal entities indicated by the Constitution's Clauses 16 & 17 of Section 8 of Article I as examples, entities under the exclusive legislative control of Congress, the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for intrastate public healthcare purposes.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I would point out that the list of companies currently suing is about the ENTIRE list of companies that would actually have not provided free birth control. Virtually EVERY employer is providing birth control, and has been for the last decade.

This entire fight while important is pretty much one big distraction from the big picture, meaning we needed to win, but it’s like the aliens are taking over the world, and you manage to save a theater full of people. Cool, but a billion people died while you were at it.

And remember, “free” birth control costs the company about $4 a month per woman more than requiring the women to pay a deductible.

The thing I regret the most is that none of the cases is about an INDIVIDUAL being allowed to OPT OUT of abortion/birth control coverage in their own insurance.

I have always argued that THIS is the real damage to personal religious liberty — that Obamacare forces individuals who have a moral opposition to birth control to still pay for insurance that provides it for free.

If we really cared about conscience, we’d allow people to opt out of their abortion and birth control coverage, with a small return (it would be very small as this coverage is essentially free anyway) in premiums.

I’d actually argue that everything on the list of “preventative” crap should be a menu for you to choose from, except what I really mean is that people should be allowed to contract for their own insurance with a company that covers what the insurance and purchaser agree to, without interference from government. That will never happen, it wasn’t that way before when employers got to choose your insurance.

[USS Alaska]

The Supreme Court won't strike down Obamacare's contraception mandate, but a ruling for the law's challengers could still render the policy toothless for millions of women.

Making declarative statements like this, before the event, are the reason egg is on some faces.

No writer knows what in the hell the SCOTUS will do about anything, because NO ONE predicted that obamacare would be ruled constitutional, because the penalty is really a tax...oh yeah.

I don't know what these 9 judges in black robes will do, I pray for the Christian outcome.