http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/11/19/1219011/hobby-lobby-judge/
A federal judge ruled Monday night that the Hobby Lobbycraft store chain must offer its 13,000 employees contraceptive coverage without a co-pay, as mandated by Obamacare.
Hobby Lobby sued to deny such coverage in September, citing conservative evangelical owner David Green’s personal religious objections to certain types of birth control that fall under Obamacare’s contraception mandate. In particular, the company sought to deny its employees coverage for the morning after pill, commonly known as Plan B.
But on Monday night, U.S. District Judge Joe Heaton denied the request in a 28-page ruling, pointing out that religious institutions have already been given exemptions from covering contraception, and that Hobby Lobby does not qualify since it is a private business:
“However, Hobby Lobby and Mardel [its partner company] are not religious organizations,” the ruling states. “Plaintiffs have not cited, and the court has not found, any case concluding that secular, for-profit corporations such as Hobby Lobby and Mardel have a constitutional right to the free exercise of religion.”
Hobby Lobby’s attorney said the companies’ owners, the Green family, plan to appeal.
“Every American, including family business owners like the Greens, should be free to live and do business according to their religious beliefs,” Kyle Duncan, general counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, said in a statement.
, employers are gnat crap without employees they have a vested interest in their health and welfare of those employed to advance teir business, if they don't want to pay this or that to that end then"we the people" suffer as consumers of that product.
i think it's abunch of BS all the rants about "i'll fire people" "i'll close up" and what make no money go back to work for someone else because to insure your business prevails you have insure the vehicle that gets you there and you make a few dollars less? a few dollars less is a longshot from half a business or none at all stupid attempt to protest.
as a former business owner i knew you have to spend it to make it cost of doing business, fire competent staff for low cost labor does not save money. your product suffers, reliablity dissapears and you cheap yourself out of business.
chain goes you, employees, consumers, break the chain and you can go talk to the hand cause it was all about you.
