Posted on 01/28/2014 2:47:41 AM PST by markomalley
In a brief to be filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, 19 Democratic senators are siding with the Obama administration against evangelical Christian businessmen who argue that paying for their employees’ birth control, a requirement under Obamacare, violates their company’s religious freedom.
The senators—five of them women—argue in their “friend of the court” brief that the owners of the Oklahoma-based crafts store chain Hobby Lobby are not exempt from the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate simply because some forms of birth control offend their religious beliefs.
Hobby Lobby’s owners, David Green and his family, are suing the federal government over the mandate, which says large employers’ insurance plans must offer birth control without co-pays or else face steep fines.
A lower court upheld the Greens’ case, ruling that the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) protects the Greens from having to adjust their insurance plans to cover contraception for their 13,000 employees. (RFRA says the government must have a compelling reason to infringe upon an individual’s religious beliefs, and that laws that do so must be narrowly tailored.)
The case is novel because religious freedom, enshrined in the First Amendment, typically has been thought to apply to individuals, churches and other religious nonprofits—not corporations. But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, siding with Hobby Lobby, said the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010 , which upheld a free-speech right for corporations, conferred a right to religious expression on businesses.
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An interesting list. A who’s who of America’s enemies.
Anyone signing onto this petition to the court has overtly violated his oath to defend the Constitution. Fact, not opinion.
Maryland "Freak State" PING!
19 Communist Democrat Senators filed an amicus brief in support of telling businesses how to run their health insurance plans.
Oh...um...Nanny State PING!
I’m sure with the Cave-o-Matic court (SCOTUS eras are named for the chief justices), they needn’t have bothered. I’m sure the decision will be even stricter and even more devoid of logic than the law itself, just for a bonus.
How I loathe those two Senate sows.
Pox be upon them all. Friggin traitors, the whole lot.
Enemies of the United States of America!!!....in my opinion.
WTH? A business is made by people, individuals. Thus, it can indeed as a corp. do what it - its people - want. I tire of this constant separating of people and their businesses. Treating it that way is again evidence of fascism. We really cannot control what is supposed to be ours.
I know you ment to type Red “lesbian dwarf” Babs Mikulski.
I don’t know if she’s homo, but I despise her. I just call her “Butterball”.
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