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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSCOTUS Decision Will Allow Hobby Lobby Et Al To Fire Women For Using Contraception
theoretically they could fire women for using contraception, having sex outside of marriage, or anything else against the Catholic religion. I think what they decided goes beyond just paying for health care. What about the situation where the insurance includes contraception without charging for it. Or what if a woman has an abortion or buys her own contraception? Women could be punished for exercising their rights if they work for a company has someone who is a religious fanatic.
Even now the churches demand that they discriminate against non believers in hiring and providing services even if they provide those services to the general public. Look at how many hospitals are run by religious institutions that do not provide contraceptive services for the general public.
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)Response to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)
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underpants
(182,904 posts)I'll see if I can find it
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)I am sure they most likely can't, but there are so many ways to intimidate workers these days anything is possible. Just because they can't does not mean they won't. I was raised Catholic for 23 years but no longer practice. The owners of Hobby Lobby are doing other things to promote their religious agenda that are just as egregious. They are part of the movement to MAKE this a Christian nations against the will of the rest of us. The court has an agenda remember most of the court is radical conservative Catholic. 2 or 3 of the Justices are Opus Dei. That is the extreme radical wing of the Church.
The radical Christians are at war with anything secular. What we have seen lately is only the beginning.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)Neither of the companies in the Hobby Lobby case is owned by Catholics: Hobby Lobby's owners are fundie Protestants; the others are Mennonites. Also, the Court specifically said their decision is limited to four kinds of contraception and that it does not deal with any other civil-rights related issues; they were very specific in stating that the decision "does not provide a shield for employers who might cloak illegal discrimination as a religious practice." http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-354_olp1.pdf
I'm not saying I like or agree with the decision - of course, I don't - but let's be accurate about what it does and doesn't say.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Minor nitpick.