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F.O.A.D.

On 12/2/13, 6:59 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 17:16:58 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 12/2/13, 5:11 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 16:32:21 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

Dec. 2 (UPI) -- The Supreme Court has refused to hear a challenge to the
president's signature health care law from Liberty University, which
attempted to overturn portions of the law's mandate involving
contraception coverage.

In declining to hear the case, Liberty University v. Lew, 13-306, the
court upheld a decision by the federal appeals court to dismiss the lawsuit.

Liberty, a Christian University, hoped to avoid the Affordable Care
Act's requirements that most employers must provide health insurance to
all its employees or face a fine, as well as complaining the requirement
for all insurance plans to include contraceptive coverage was a
violation of its religious freedoms.

Don't get too excited. They ducked this case because they are going to
have to hear the Hobby Lobby case. Hobby Lobby won their case in the
10th circuit. If they don't hear the case, Hobby Lobby wins.
(unlike the one you cited where the Liberty University lost)

The problem for this particular court is, if a corporation has the
rights of a person that can have political views (citizens united),
why can't it have religious views?

Oh, I'm not excited, not with the current makeup of the right-wing court
and morons like Scalia and Thomas still on it.

You sounded like the juice was running down your leg when you posted
the top note and you wrote like it was significant.
In real life the court simply chose not to hear a losing case and
chose to hear a better one.
This one does not involve church and state, simply a corporation and
what rights they have to respect their own values.

If this was a case where a corporation did not want to hire gun owners
or smokers (both legal activities) you would support the corporation
and there are certainly more court sanctioned protections for
prospective employees than people wanting company supplied abortion or
birth control.

Of course it involves religion. Hobby Lobby is shoving its religious
beliefs onto its employees.