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Supreme court heard oral arguments on hobby lobby and corporations religious rights.
Hobby lobby is a public company - though closely held by a family- with 13000 employees.
They are objection to acas provision to provide contraceptives on religious grounds.
My first issue - this certainly seems that any ruling in favor of the corporation would by its very nature mean that at least some workers religious freedoms will be trampled on.
Further it dramatically changes the employer/employee relationship. If a for profit non religious corporation can make decisions based on religious beliefs of the owners/corp officers or as yet some undefined set of principals o birth control, why not on prayer, at work. Or mandatory church attendance of current employees. Will employees be required to listen to and adhere to the religious proselytizing of their bosses!?
What about new employees? If they can decide based on their religious beliefs what employees have access to or not, why can the employer decide not to hire blacks because they carry the mark of cain. Single mothers forget the harlet.
If this ruling goes in favor of the corporation, my feeling is that it is the most dangerous step backwards for civil rights and the strongest step towards a theocracy in the history of the us.
Legal scholars please chime in.
Supreme court heard oral arguments on hobby lobby and corporations religious rights.
Hobby lobby is a public company - though closely held by a family- with 13000 employees.
They are objection to acas provision to provide contraceptives on religious grounds.
My first issue - this certainly seems that any ruling in favor of the corporation would by its very nature mean that at least some workers religious freedoms will be trampled on.
Further it dramatically changes the employer/employee relationship. If a for profit non religious corporation can make decisions based on religious beliefs of the owners/corp officers or as yet some undefined set of principals o birth control, why not on prayer, at work. Or mandatory church attendance of current employees. Will employees be required to listen to and adhere to the religious proselytizing of their bosses!?
What about new employees? If they can decide based on their religious beliefs what employees have access to or not, why can the employer decide not to hire blacks because they carry the mark of cain. Single mothers forget the harlet.
If this ruling goes in favor of the corporation, my feeling is that it is the most dangerous step backwards for civil rights and the strongest step towards a theocracy in the history of the us.
Legal scholars please chime in.
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