Obama Allies Want Hobby Lobby Exemptions Too

[wkmac]

In a "pot calling the kettle black" moment! Thanks to The Atheist Experience out of Austin Texas for heads up on this.

As we continue to observe fallout in the wake of the Hobby Lobby decision, which curtails workers’ access to birth control, it seems an unexpected problem has emerged: Some allies of President Barack Obama want exemptions from laws, too.

Just like the Religious Right, which has long sought to skirt laws that it doesn’t like (such as the Affordable Care Act mandate that most employers must provide free birth control in employee insurance plans), now it appears a group that includes some allies of the Obama administration doesn’t want to comply with an upcoming executive order that would stop anyone with a federal contract from discriminating against LGBT people when hiring.

License To Discriminate?: Some Obama Allies Demand Religious-Based Exemption From Pending LGBT Order

 

[oldngray]

In a "pot calling the kettle black" moment! Thanks to The Atheist Experience out of Austin Texas for heads up on this.




License To Discriminate?: Some Obama Allies Demand Religious-Based Exemption From Pending LGBT Order

What really opened the floodgates was Ginsburg's dissent which mentioned the Hobby Lobby case having wider applications. The majority opinion was narrowly focused but Ginsburg broadened the scope of the decision.

 

[BrownArmy]

I think we'll find that the 'Hobby Lobby' majority opinion wasn't that narrowly focused after all, we'll have to see.

Scientologists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Scientists, etc.

Oldngray, what will you say when a future employee is denied coverage from their Muslim employer for a vaccine that contains pork products, and it's upheld because of the 'Hobby Lobby' decision?

Will you still say 'narrowly focused' ?

To say that the floodgates have been opened by the dissent in this decision is some weird logic, to say the least...

 

[oldngray]

I think we'll find that the 'Hobby Lobby' majority opinion wasn't that narrowly focused after all, we'll have to see.

Scientologists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Scientists, etc.

Oldngray, what will you say when a future employee is denied coverage from their Muslim employer for a vaccine that contains pork products, and it's upheld because of the 'Hobby Lobby' decision?

Will you still say 'narrowly focused' ?

To say that the floodgates have been opened by the dissent in this decision is some weird logic, to say the least...

Why Ginsburg’s Hobby Lobby dissent might backfire

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/why-ginsburgs-hobby-lobby-dissent-might-backfire

 

[BrownArmy]

And it will end up right back in the Supreme Court, sooo?