Supreme Court backs Hobby Lobby

[KOPBET]

I think this is a bad decision by the SCOTUS. Giving Companies the rights to determine what medicine and treatment is still none of their business.

Seriously? Companies determine coverage for treatment, drugs, and all sorts of things all the time in their insurance plans.

 

[FamousAJ]

Together we make 3....

Sorry, had to do it before Spata did.

wolfpack

 

[Glocktogo]

The next lawsuit will be if sprintec, orthonovum and other medicine is technically birth control or a menstral cycle regulator.

I think this is a bad decision by the SCOTUS. Giving Companies the rights to determine what medicine and treatment is still none of their business.

Except that's not what they did.

I guess I will be the voice of dissent here. While I normally agree with things that fly in the face of Obama, this is not one of them. A corporation is not a person, period. They don't get to make these types of decisions for their employees. They're not

Look at this way- you work for a company that provides healthcare, but the owner is a Jehovah's Witness and doesn't believe in antibiotics so by this ruling, they could withhold paying for your antibiotics. Then don't work for a JW. You still have a choice.

You either provide health care coverage unencumbered or not. It is that simple. Yes, the employees can go get another job, but this goes against EVERYTHING I believe in. A corporation is NOT A PERSON! A business should not be allowed to have religious views and force that onto their employees. The persons who own the company are allowed to have religious views. The opposite of that would be to say that a person with religious convictions cannot be an employer if their views conflict with socialist laws like Obamacare. Would you argue that theuy aren't allowed to employ people?

I do not give a crap about the birth control topic, but this will lead to other issues giving corporations control over how we live our lives. Your boss will be able to tell you how to live, and that is BS.

No one is controlling your life the way the government and Obamacare are. All the unintended consequences of Obamacare have yet to hit us. They've created so many exemptions and extensions specifically so they can get the frogs (us) at full boil before we realize what they did to us. By that time, it will be too late.

 

[JD8]

My logic is that this decision should, and rightfully so, allow for all religious arguments to be made whether you are christian, Catholic, Jewish, muslim whatever. If we allow one we must allow all. By can of worms I meant that there may be time where we are talking here about a religious issue that seems nuts to us but it carries the same protections as we have.

Its good that you clarified that statement as that's not what I got out of it. The can of worms doesn't bother me in the sense that I believe that all the major religions are "nuts" anyways.

 

[JD8]

The next lawsuit will be if sprintec, orthonovum and other medicine is technically birth control or a menstral cycle regulator.

I think this is a bad decision by the SCOTUS. Giving Companies the rights to determine what medicine and treatment is still none of their business.

It's their business if they are forced to pay for it.

Don't like it? Don't work for them.

 

[71buickfreak]

It's their business if they are forced to pay for it.

Don't like it? Don't work for them.

All laws should be applied equally and justly, no special treatment.

 

[FullAuto]

Benefits of any kind shouldn't be required. They were originally offered to one up their competition and get the better employees. Now people think they're a right. If a company wants to give less benefits or none at all, they should be allowed to. If the employees don't like it, they'll go elsewhere and the business will fail. If the business wants to stay in business, they'll make the necessary adjustments. Maybe they want to offer lower benefits and get the bottom of the barrel employees. My company gives great benefits including 401k matching and a separate pension system. It has cost them money their competitors don't spend but in return, the better employees from the competition all attempt to come here. They get loyalty and have grown to over double the size of their nearest competition. Private business is smarter than gov't will ever be.

 

[TedKennedy]

I do agree with the Union ruling. My money is mine, if I choose to donate to a Union then its.my choice.

..but Unions are still required by law to represent non-dues paying employees. Makes a heckuva lotta sense.

 

[Blinocac200sx]

All laws should be applied equally and justly, no special treatment.

You make a good point. The whole law should be thrown out all together since it goes against the free exercise of religion.

 

[JD8]

All laws should be applied equally and justly, no special treatment.

Except when the Supreme Court says the law violates their "religious liberty?"