(June 30, 2014 at 2:57 pm)blackout94 Wrote:(June 30, 2014 at 2:53 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Actually, that part I get. They mean a corporation owned by a very small like-minded group of people can have a religious orientation. Hobby Lobby is entirely family owned.
But one thing is the orientation of the people another thing is the collective entity. The entity is formed by the people but both are separate. Objection of conscience can happen if a particular employer is against something, but the whole corporation can't be religious biased. Associations and foundations can, but corporations and enterprises can't, usually they search for profit only.
It's not so much that Hobby Lobby is 'religious' corporation as a whole, it's just that it's owners and shareholders (very few in number and nearly all in the same family) have their religious beliefs. The decision says that the law cannot force them to provide insurance (i.e. spend their money) for the morning after pill because they are exercising their religious freedom.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson
