The SCOTUS Decision for Hobby Lobby.
In one of the most monumental, and horribly flawed, decisions in Supreme Court history, five of the Justices stated that a corporation has the right to limit what birth control under the ACA a woman has access too. Hobby Lobby's owners are against four of sixteen contraceptives stating they are "abortion inducing" (not entirely true), but the decision is not based on those individual owner's rights, but the entirety of the corporation known as Hobby Lobby.
Hobby Lobby is a CORPORATION, not a PERSON. A corporation does not, should not, and cannot have human or Constitutional rights. That is the entire argument against the partisan, paid for members of the SCOTUS. They have elevated corporations, a business entity designed to make profits and goods, to the level of a living person. Hobby Lobby cannot pray, it cannot go to war, it cannot give birth, it cannot bleed, it cannot empathize, it cannot vote.
Only people can.
The decisions by the SCOTUS and our Congress elevating corporations to personhood have dehumanized the citizens while humanizing the corporations.
I support the OWNERS of Hobby Lobby the Constitutionally protected right to their spiritual beliefs. But once those owners started a business, one that is part of the social fabric of the United States and thereby is inclusive of the entire citizenry of the nation, their beliefs can go no further than their homes and hearts.
Can you imagine, just imagine, if Walmart, who employs 2.1 million people decided that because of the family's religious beliefs that Muslims could not be employed by them? Think on that for a moment. (FYI, several companies have already filed to exclude Gays, Muslims, and others under the SCOTUS decision...Pandora's Box is open).
There is only one organization that can be religious, a Church. But then again corporations might as well declare themselves as such because they don't pay taxes anymore, they now can opt out of Federal mandates, and they don't have to follow the same tax laws that citizens do.
We are not a Corporate Theocracy, but it seems that radical elements in our Federal government, backed by banks and corporations, are bound and determined to make us one no matter what rights are destroyed and how citizens are dehumanized.
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