RE: So, the SCOTUS sided with Hobby Lobby
June 30, 2014 at 1:36 pm
(This post was last modified: June 30, 2014 at 1:39 pm by Jenny A.)
(June 30, 2014 at 1:21 pm)Jaysyn Wrote:(June 30, 2014 at 1:16 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Cite it as precedent in all manner of failings of the unsaved masses in denying services, coverage, housing, employment, etc.
No Chik-fil-a for you! You don't handle SNAKES !!!!!!!
Not quite understanding what you are getting at here, but the government isn't a "closely-held" private company.
I don't think it will happen, but Vorlon13 is not that far off the mark. The Supreme Court said Hobby Lobby doesn't have to provide insurance coverage it would otherwise have to because its owners object to certain contraceptives on religious grounds. Suppose that next Catholic owned companies refused to insure the spouses of previously divorced employees on the grounds that according the Catholic teachings they aren't spouses and to pay for that would condone living in sin. There's a logical argument to be made under this ruling that they wouldn't have to. And then there's the question of whether Christians would have to let apartments to homosexuals, or unmarried persons of the opposite sex living together, and so on. Or if they could refuse to let to such people on religious grounds.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.