Does a Christian White-Supremacist Business Have the "Religious Freedom" to Discriminate?

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http://www.alternet.org/belief/does-christian-white-supremacist-business-have-religious-freedom-discriminate





The slide towards American theocracy was nudged one more step forward by the Supreme Court decision in support of the "freedom" of corporations with "religious" beliefs to restrict the rights of their employees. In essence, religious "beliefs" trump the obligations, rights, and responsibilities that come with being members of the polity and a broader political community.

The NY Times details the logic of the theocrats as:

The 5-to-4 decision, which applied to two companies owned by Christian families, opened the door to challenges from other corporations to many laws that may be said to violate their religious liberty.

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., writing for the court’s five more conservative justices, said a federal religious-freedom law applied to for-profit corporations controlled by religious families. He added that the requirement that the companies provide contraception coverage imposed a substantial burden on the companies’ religious liberty. He said the government could provide the coverage in other ways.

The dissent offers up this chilling observation:

On that point, Justice Ginsburg, joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, said the court’s decision “is bound to have untoward effects” in other settings.

“The court’s expansive notion of corporate personhood,” Justice Ginsburg wrote, “invites for-profit entities to seek religion-based exemptions from regulations they deem offensive to their faiths.”

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1. Why not?!?!

[handmade34]

2. excellent read...

"...The beautiful thing about religious faith is its malleability and vagueness. "Faith" is a belief which cannot be proven by ordinary or empirical means: this trait makes religion dangerous and disruptive to a functioning democratic-liberal polity..."

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3. Who Hobby Lobby?

Of course - ask the Supremes

[kwijybo]

4. I'm going to start a religion

Tithes are 1%, You don't believe in taxes, environmental protections, worker protections, minimum wage, or health insurance, They'll flock to me...

[Warren Stupidity]

5. The craven five appeared to have carved out race.

Which just further illustrates the complete dishonesty of their position.