Hobby Lobby ruling: Why Supreme Court got it right

FoxNews.com ^ | 20-June-2014 | Dr. Robert Jeffress

[topher]

Monday’s ruling in the case of Sebelius vs. Hobby Lobby is an important victory for religious liberty for people of all faiths, regardless of what secularists will argue in their criticism of the Supreme Court’s decision. Liberals have tried to obfuscate the real issue in the case by insisting that it was about the merits of employer-mandated healthcare, the propriety of contraception, or the right of a woman to have an abortion.

In reality, Hobby Lobby already provided health care for its employees. Additionally, the company’s insurance covers 16 of the 20 contraceptives required under the HHS mandate.

[Labyrinthos]

The SCOTUS opinion is a narrow decision affecting privately-held corporations being forced to pay for employees’ abortificients. It does not protect publicly-held corporations, nor corporations whose religious beliefs oppose hiring open homosexuals.

Unlike the lib justices, the majority issued an opinion that is no broader than the issues before the court. It did not decide one way or the other whether the ruling applies to public corporations because no public corporation was a party to the lawsuit. The logical extension of the Hobby Lobby opinion is not whether the ruling applies to publically- traded corporations, but whether it allows a private business to decline work because of deeply held religious beliefs -- such as refusing to bake a wedding cake for a gay marriage.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Will be interesting to see how they deal with a Catholic-owned business that objects to all contraception.