Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Understand the importance of the Hobby Lobby case

John Roberts Offers Conservatives A Way Out Of Birth Control Dilemma (Click here to read more)


Sahil Kapur
March 26, 2014

Skeptics of the legal challenge to Obamacare's birth control mandate warn that a ruling against it could conceivably declare open season on virtually any law that a person or business can mount a religious-based objection to. If Hobby Lobby can be exempt because of its owners' Christian beliefs, Justice Elena Kagan wondered, what legal principle would stop other corporations from seeking religious-based exemptions from minimum wage or sex discrimination laws?

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