Slippery Slope
The Hobby Lobby Case Is Here
Tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear arguments
in a closely-watched lawsuit brought by Hobby
Lobby and Conestoga Wood. When it rules on these cases this
summer, the Supreme Court will decide whether the religious beliefs of the
owners of for-profit corporations can be used as a justification to deny the
company’s employees the contraceptive health coverage they are entitled to under
the Affordable Care Act. While these cases are specifically about the Affordable
Care Act’s birth control benefit, the High Court could open the floodgates to
discrimination in the name of religious belief.
Why Should You Care? Consider
the potentially slippery slope of Hobby Lobby. A poorly decided
Hobby Lobby decision has the potential to go beyond “corporations are people, my friend.” It has the
ability to dramatically transform religious liberty from a fundamental value
that protects religious beliefs into a loopholes that can be used to
discrimination, dictate women’s health choices, evade federal protections, and
promote unfair advantages in the corporate world. The following infographic
details the potential consequences that a poorly decided Hobby Lobby
ruling could have on our nation.
BOTTOM LINE: Religious liberty
is a core American value and progressives believe in religious liberty for all, not just for some.
Religious liberty means religious liberty for everyone. And that includes the
freedom from having the theological doctrines of your boss or those of business
owners in your community being forced upon you.
The upcoming Supreme Court cases are not really
about religious liberty, they are about minority of individuals seeking a
license to ignore laws and regulations they disagree with in order to
discriminate against women, and others.
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