With 6 Catholic Supreme Court Justices, what will happen to the contraception mandate

[NAO]

when it goes to the supreme court?

[bigwillq]

1. They all will put condoms on top of their heads (the one UP here)

Wave their fingers near their ears and stick their tongues out at us!

[lonestarnot]

10. And they will lick some cats!

[TlalocW]

2. Well...

The democrats will vote according to how they interpret the Constitution.
Most of the republicans will pretend to do the same thing but just vote as conservatives.
One (Scalia) will get his marching orders and outline of the opinion he'll write from Opus Dei.
One (Thomas) will do whatever Scalia tells him to.

TlalocW

[NAO]

4. Can they vote other than as dictated by the Pope?

don't they risk excommunication if they don't?

Thankfully, the Church is no longer allowed to tie people to poles, douse them with gasoline, and light them on fire for disagreeing - which was their SOP for more than 1000 years.

[Pirate Smile]

3. Sotomayor certainly isn't going to go a certain way for the Bishops.

Didn't we get rid of this bullshit about answering to the Pope when JFK got elected?

[NAO]

7. that was the liberal era of Vatican II; now we have Joey Ratz who

was the Grand Inquisitor before he made Pope.

Pope John Paul II appointed Ratz to lead the Inquisition on 25 November 1981. His official job tile was "Cardinal-Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith", but that's just the HR/PC friendly name for Grand Inquisitor.

[Pirate Smile]

9. None of that matters. Catholics are very good at ignoring the Pope, Cardinals & Bishops.

[1ProudAtheist]

5. The Issue

has already been decided. Scalia penned the opinion. Aside from all of that, the powers granted under the ACA give the Secretary of HHS the authority to make such decisions. This issue never sees a courtroom. It is over with, dead, done, and decided.

[Tx4obama]

6. How SC Justice Scalia Helped Obama Defend The Birth Control Rule

How Scalia Helped Obama Defend The Birth Control Rule
See here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/101613432

[whistler162]

8. Don't know you however may want

to stop jumping up and down screaming "HEY LOOK AT ME I AM A BIGOT!".

[Proud Liberal Dem]

11. On what basis can this be challenged in the courts (now)?

No Catholic employer is going to have to pay for/provide contraception b/c insurers will be responsible for doing so now. Not to mention the fact that 28 states already had the same rule as what Obama first introduced and there hasn't been so much as a peep about that by them. This is a politically motivated attempt to drive a wedge between President Obama and Catholic supporters during an election year IMHO. He has, as far as I can tell, addressed the concerns that were initially raised, so where else exactly do they have to go with this?

[former9thward]

12. A lot of religious institutions are self insured.

They don't use separate insurance companies for their employees. So that is the basis they could challenge it.