Re Hobby Lobby et al...
Jul. 2nd, 2014 10:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
usernamenumberI'm sure people have brought it up elsewhere, and that there's probably a makes-sense-in-that-fiddly-legal-way explanation, but I'm surprised I haven't been more people making this point:
(with the caveat that numbers in the following examples are completely made up, and only important inasmuch as one is bigger than the other)
Employer pays for a health care plan with which an employee acquires birth control for $10: Violation of religious liberties! You can't force an employer to pay for that!
Employer pays for a salary with which an employee acquires birth control for $100: Sure, whatever.
...?
(with the caveat that numbers in the following examples are completely made up, and only important inasmuch as one is bigger than the other)
Employer pays for a health care plan with which an employee acquires birth control for $10: Violation of religious liberties! You can't force an employer to pay for that!
Employer pays for a salary with which an employee acquires birth control for $100: Sure, whatever.
...?
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Date: 2014-07-09 01:09 pm (UTC)Nevermind the legal reasoning behind a corporation having beliefs.
And only a few days after Hobby Lobby, SCOTUS broke its promise on scoping and opened the gates even wider: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2014/07/wheaton_college_injunction_the_supreme_court_just_sneakily_reversed_itself.html
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Date: 2014-07-12 12:28 am (UTC)