An interesting take on the recent SCOTUS vote about Abercrombie & Fitch
It is the latest in a line of Supreme Court cases that have elevated religious rights over secular interests, whether exercised by powerful corporations, government agencies or prison inmates.
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There is broad agreement among the justices to protect an individual’s rights to religious expression. In January, the court unanimously sided with a Muslim inmate serving a life term after slitting his girlfriend’s throat who had challenged a prison ban on growing a short beard he said his religion required.
No such consensus exists when it comes to firms and government entities claiming similar rights. Last year, the court split 5-4 along its conservative-liberal divide to affirm a town council’s authority to begin meetings nearly exclusively with Christian invocations and to exempt corporations from employee-benefits regulations that violate their owners’ religious beliefs.
In the latter case, the court held that a 1993 federal religious-freedom law entitled Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. to drop contraceptives from its employee health plan even though they are required by Affordable Care Act regulations.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-sides-with-muslim-abercrombie-job-applicant-over-head-scarf-1433170999
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