Tag: Hobby Lobby

There’s been a lot written here (and in a bunch of other places) about the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision allowing Hobby Lobby to refuse to provide health insurance coverage for contraceptives for its female employees, and shortly after the Supreme Court’s decision, I noted on Twitter that the Hobby…

Just days after opening a second front on the war on women, the Supreme Court of the United States back tracks on one of the alternatives they delineated in their Hobby Lobby decision. No really! Birth Control Order Deepens Divide Among Justices WASHINGTON — In a decision that drew an…

When I originally saw this photograph, my response was a chuckle while shaking my head. But there is far more going on here than most of us realize. [and I have often complained about how the right ‘messages’ their positions while the left just doesn’t get it, and here’s a…

This is brilliant> A 5-4 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court (comprised of all men) delivered a stunning set-back for women’s reproductive rights in the Hobby Lobby case yesterday. The conservative majority ruled that a crafts chain store (here, one with over 500 outlets) whose owners espouse “sincere religious beliefs”…

Any number of GOP pundits have condemned the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) as the start of the slippery slope to single payer health care in the United States. To that I can add, I only hope! But as part of yesterday’s Supreme Court Ruling in favor of Hobby Lobby’s…

In case you were living under a rock yesterday, the conservative judicial activists on the United States Supreme Court ruled yesterday that some closely held for-profit companies can pick and choose which laws they want to follow, based on the personal religious beliefs of the owners of those companies. Some…

In an article about the egregious Supreme Court ruling in favor of ‘freedom of religion’ for Hobby Lobby in the second front on the war against woman, State Senator Glenn Grothman celebrated his deep sense of provincialism: “The Supreme Court ruling in favor of Hobby Lobby is a big win…

“Supreme Court Rejects Contraceptives Mandate for Some Corporations“: WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that requiring family-owned corporations to pay for insurance coverage for contraception under the Affordable Care Act violated a federal law protecting religious freedom. It was, the dissent said, “a decision of startling breadth.” The…