This has been a stellar week for Supreme Court decisions, and the Hobby Lobby case acts as a nice bookend along with the court’s appropriate strikedown of Massachusetts’s protest ban.
If you haven’t logged into the news in a couple of days, The Supreme Court ruled Monday that companies need not obey the Obamacare mandate when it comes to paying for emergency contraceptive coverage. In some cases, this type of coverage could lead to drug-induced abortions which could play into direct conflict of a company’s religious beliefs.
Naturally, a company cannot strictly have religious beliefs, which is why the court’s decision resonated with logic and care. They limited their ruling to closely-held companies only, and the ruling is only in the specific area of a few birth control options. The case concerned the nationwide craftstore chain Hobby Lobby, owned by the Oklahoma-based Green family. The Greens were on record saying they had no problem covering many of the Obamacare-mandated birth control methods, but would not pay for four others because it went against their religious beliefs regarding abortion.
- See more at: http://www.leanrightamerica.org/health/the-hobby-lobby-case-in-praise-of-constitutionally-minded-justices/#sthash.0YtfKLoI.dpuf
