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Supreme Feud - Religion vs.
Reality
Supreme Court taking us for a
ride back in time.
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality...
(Bohemian Rhapsody)
Written by Freddie Mercury.
Sung by Freddie Mercury.
OH, it's real life ALL
RIGHT but it's based on a fantasy. Hold on to your hats
folks… we’re in for the holy roller ride of our
lives!
AND IN THIS DAY AND AGE
OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY?
thinkingblue
PS: Please wake me when
it's over!
MORE HERE:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-07/supreme-court
-feuds-over-the-hobby-lobby-birth-control-ruling
HEALTH
CARE
Ginsburg:
'Radical' Hobby Lobby Ruling May Create 'Havoc'
The
Supreme Court justice took on the majority opinion in a
biting dissent.
The Supreme Court on Monday weakened
Obamacare's controversial contraception mandate, ruling
5-4 that some employers cannot be forced to cover birth
control as part of their health insurance plans. The
majority opinion, written by conservative Justice Samuel
Alito, said such a mandate infringes on religious
freedom, and therefore can be waived by certain business
owners.
But in a blistering, 35-page
dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, joined by Justice
Sonia Sotomayor, lambasted the majority
opinion—delivered by five male justices—as
"a decision of startling breadth" that would
allow corporations to "opt out of any law …
they judge incompatible with their sincerely held
religious beliefs."
The majority view "demands
accommodation of a for-profit corporation's religious
beliefs no matter the impact that accommodation may have
on third parties who do not share the corporation owners'
religious faith—in these cases, thousands of women
employed by Hobby Lobby and Conestoga or dependents of
persons those corporations employ," wrote Ginsburg,
a stalwart member of the Court's liberal wing.
She continued: "Persuaded that
Congress enacted the (Religious Freedom Restoration Act)
to serve a far less radical purpose, and mindful of the
havoc the Court's judgment can introduce, I
dissent."
Ginsburg's opinion reasons that
religious groups exist to serve the explicit interests of
their adherents, while for-profit companies serve a
fundamentally different purpose. Bucking the majority,
Ginsburg sides with the Obama administration's claim that
for-profit companies do not possess religious rights
under the RFRA.
Granting them such rights, Ginsburg
contends, could allow employers to trample over any
number of health care needs in the name of religious
objection.
MORE HERE: http://www.nationaljournal.com/health-care/ginsburg-radical
-hobby-lobby-ruling-may-create-havoc-20140630
MORE HERE: http://www.bustle.com/articles/29878-ruth-bader-ginsburgs-
hobby-lobby-dissent-is-the-best-takedown-ever
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