Skeptics
of the legal challenge to Obamacare's birth control mandate warn that
a ruling against it could 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 delusions, Justice Elena Kagan wondered, what legal principle would
stop other corporations from seeking religious-based exemptions from
minimum wage or sex discrimination laws?
Chief
Justice John Roberts, expressing deep skepticism toward the
contraceptive mandate during Supreme Court arguments on Tuesday,
offered wingnuts a way out of that dilemma. He contended that
"closely held" businesses, like Hobby Lobby and Conestoga
Wood, who brought the case, could be given that option without
opening the same door for publicly owned companies.
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