This is the larger problem with the Hobby Lobby case. People can believe what they like but the same laws need to apply to everyone.
Allowing businesses to be exempt from certain laws on the basis of faith opens the flood gates.
Can an Islamic owned business require female employees wear a hajib?
Can a Christian-Science owned business be exempt from providing any health insurance at all, since prayer and faith are all that are needed?
Can a Scientology owned business be exempt from providing any mental health coverage, since they don't approve of psychology?
And these are fairly mainstream religions. How will the government decide what beliefs and exclusions are legitimate? More specifically, how will they do so without violating the establishment clause of the first amendment?
The can is open and the worms are going to be everywhere before long.
Allowing businesses to be exempt from certain laws on the basis of faith opens the flood gates.
Can an Islamic owned business require female employees wear a hajib?
Can a Christian-Science owned business be exempt from providing any health insurance at all, since prayer and faith are all that are needed?
Can a Scientology owned business be exempt from providing any mental health coverage, since they don't approve of psychology?
And these are fairly mainstream religions. How will the government decide what beliefs and exclusions are legitimate? More specifically, how will they do so without violating the establishment clause of the first amendment?
The can is open and the worms are going to be everywhere before long.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
