(July 2, 2014 at 10:10 am)Esquilax Wrote:(July 2, 2014 at 9:26 am)Heywood Wrote: Corporations are legal instruments used by people to facilitate the conducting of business. The people and their rights don't magically go away just because they incorporate. Lefties like to think they do when it suits them....but thinking it so doesn't make it so.
Hey, real quick: name one other scenario in which a person or group of people's religious liberties include the right to dictate to other people what they can use their rightful compensation for their work on. Just one.
I'll wait.
Rightful compensation? No. Forty eight of the 50 states are "At Will" states. Employees in those states don't have special entitlement rights to demand what goes into their benefits packages. Medical benefits are part of a package that a company offers to its employees. Unless otherwise negotiated between management and labor, it's the employer who chooses what goes in the package that's being offerered, and it's the employer who can change the terms of those packages at will and without warning. If an employee doesn't like the benefits package, look for another job where the benefits are more to their liking. In the case of Hobby Lobby the SCOTUS found that the dictates of obamacare to provide abortion services and contraceptives which induced abortions violated the free exercise of their first amendment rights. The SCOTUS judged right in this case.
"Inside every Liberal there's a Totalitarian screaming to get out"
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Quote:It was an awful mistake to characterize based upon religion. I should not judge any theist that way, I must remember what I said in order to change.