I must admit that I was shocked to read about today's 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court decision to uphold the claims made by the Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties corporations. Their argument, that a health care mandate that requires them to provide contraception to their employees is in violation of their religious rights, seemed out-of-step with reality on multiple levels.
Corporations don't have religious rights, for one, or at least that is what I thought. And it seemed like the case was more about the current political tension over Obamacare -- a debate that pits small government and big government advocates against one another -- than a legitimate religious rights issue. But now that I have read the decision, I have to wonder: Was the court so overly-focused on the potential indirect violation of religious freedoms of one set of Americans that they forgot to consider the actual religious freedoms of millions of others?
IMO the court was just appeasing their sides base creating a false sense of a win by them when in reality that precedence will come home to deny them as well, they seem oblivious to the fact that laws they cheer as victory affects them too, and the politicians won't tell them. this is discrimination of those of a different mind. the scotus mantle says;
The main inscription on the front architrave (well above the main doors) is: "Equal Justice Under Law"; the one on the rear of the building says "Justice, the Guardian of Liberty."
Did the court consider that there are some people of faith who believe that there are times when we are morally and religiously compelled to provide contraceptives to those whose physical or mental health is at risk? As a rabbi and a Jew, I am one of those people. And I know that there are millions of others, of various faiths, who share this view.they fall far from the tree of justice their decisions leave just us while lawless blasphemous business high five all around. where's the justice or the liberty for a party that screams freedoms relentlessly those on that side that are supposed to be unbiased but you judge from their recent decisions.
http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/05/23/9-right-wing-media-myths-about-the-hobby-lobby/199439
