Valin Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Christian News: 6/30/14 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court handed down two historic rulings today ruling against Obama’s abortion pill mandate, upholding the right of Christian business owners to refuse to provide abortion-inducing drugs to employees. What will go down in history as two of the most important rulings that will affect Christian business owners and their businesses for many years to come was decided today in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Burwell where the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that government cannot force owners of Christian businesses to provide abortion inducing drugs to employees. Justice Samuel Alito wrote the opinion for the court. (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted June 30, 2014 Author Share Posted June 30, 2014 The Supreme Court Just Dealt a Devastating Blow to Public UnionsSam Baker and Emma RollerJune 30, 2014 Public unions just can't catch a break these days. The Supreme Court reaffirmed this fact Monday, when it ruled in a 5-4 decision that mandatory public union dues violate members' First Amendment rights. In the ruling on Harris v. Quinn, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the precedent that had upheld the state of Illinois' right to require membership dues was shaky. The issue at hand in Harris v. Quinn involves Pamela Harris, a home care worker in Illinois who takes care of her disabled son. Harris is among home care workers who have decided not to unionize through SEIU, opting instead to bargain directly with the Medicaid recipients who decide how much money to allocate to their caregivers. The case posed a challenge to so-called "fair play fees," which allow unions to collect dues from employees who aren't in the union but who still benefit from the bargains unions strike with employers. (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted June 30, 2014 Author Share Posted June 30, 2014 Two Quick Points re the Hobby Lobby Win Ramesh Ponnuru June 30, 2014 10:24 AM There will be a lot of liberal fulmination today about an activist right-wing Supreme Court and impending theocracy. Just remember: 1) If Congress wants to require all employers to cover birth control, it can pass a new law that explicitly exempts itself from the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. This ruling wouldnt be an obstacle to such a law. 2) We now go back to the status quo of 2012, when nobody was under the impression that anyones rights were being denied just because companies were generally not forced to cover birth control. Pretty sure we werent living in Iran then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted June 30, 2014 Author Share Posted June 30, 2014 The Boys & Girls At DU Are Not Happy Campers. I'm shocked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepper Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 The Boys & Girls At DU Are Not Happy Campers. I'm shocked! "Guess we will have to deal with this radical crap until one of the 5 dies And hope we have a D as president, and that we have a senate not run by t-baggers." --Mon Jun 30, 2014, 10:42 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Valin Posted June 30, 2014 Author Share Posted June 30, 2014 The Boys & Girls At DU Are Not Happy Campers. I'm shocked! "Guess we will have to deal with this radical crap until one of the 5 dies And hope we have a D as president, and that we have a senate not run by t-baggers." --Mon Jun 30, 2014, 10:42 AM Reason why this election (retake the Senate) is so important! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepper Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 NSFW language http://upload.democraticunderground.com/10025170252 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clearvision Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 "I will NEVER even park near Hobby Lobby again. Ever." Whooo. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clearvision Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 CNN "Court strikes limited blow against Obamacare contraception mandate." Had to make sure to get that in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggingtree Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Breaking News :The order list is here. The Court has granted five new cases and called for the views of the Solicitor General in one case. In Harris v. Quinn the Court limits the power to compel contributions to public employee unions, but does not forbid it. In Burwell v. Hobby Lobby the Court holds that the government can’t require closely held corporations with religious owners to provide contraception coverage, though the government may provide alternative ways to obtain or access coverage. http://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/063014zor_n648.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggingtree Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 CNN "Court strikes limited blow against Obamacare contraception mandate." Had to make sure to get that in there. I don’t think we know how (if) limited yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clearvision Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 CNN "Court strikes limited blow against Obamacare contraception mandate." Had to make sure to get that in there. I don’t think we know how (if) limited yet. It is probably a limited ruling as far as impact on Obamacare, but CNN's headline just stood out as biased by throwing that in there, did not see that in other dozens of headlines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozartlover Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 "I will NEVER even park near Hobby Lobby again. Ever." Whooo. THAT'LL show 'em. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggingtree Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 The Hobby Lobby Decision Shows The Culture War Isn’t Over It's only just begun. JUNE 30, 2014 By Ben Domenech The Supreme Court has issued a narrow ruling in favor of Hobby Lobby, exempting them from the requirement to provide coverage of all FDA-approved contraceptives because of their religious objection. I was not optimistic prior to the ruling. Personally, I expected a narrow decision, and for the Court to buy into the argument that Hobby Lobby can’t really complain about this requirement when they have the capability to not offer coverage at all, instead shifting people under their employ to the taxpayer via Medicaid or the exchanges. The penalty for offering coverage which fails to meet essential benefits is clearly absurd and sizable, but the penalty for not offering coverage at all would actually cost them less than offering coverage in the first place. The “gun to your head” penalty was the one which moved the court on the Medicaid/federalism question before, in a ruling that unexpectedly led to half the states declining to expand Medicaid. Kagan and Sotomayor stressed this in oral argument http://thefederalist.com/2014/06/30/the-hobby-lobby-decision-shows-the-culture-war-isnt-over/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggingtree Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 5 Major Takeaways From The Hobby Lobby DecisionJUNE 30, 2014 By Sean Davis The Supreme Court this morning issued its ruling in the Hobby Lobby case. At issue was whether closely held companies like Hobby Lobby could be forced by the government to provide abortifacient coverage to its employees, in defiance of its owners’ deeply held religious beliefs. In a 5-4 ruling written by Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court ruled that Hobby Lobby and other closely held companies do not have to provide contraceptive coverage that conflicts with the religious beliefs of the companies’ owners. Here are 5 major takeaways from the Supreme Court’s decision. 1) The government must provide religious accommodations to for-profit companies Corporations aren’t people, but they are owned by people, http://thefederalist.com/2014/06/30/5-major-takeaways-from-the-hobby-lobby-decision/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggingtree Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Totalitarians Oppose Today’s SCOTUS Rulings By: Leon H. Wolf (Diary) | June 30th at 11:31 AM | 0 Make no mistake, both of today’s SCOTUS rulings were about freedom. And the parade of screeching liberals opposed to both results has made it clear that when it comes to ...http://www.redstate.com/2014/06/30/totalitarians-oppose-todays-scotus-rulings/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clearvision Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 LA Times "Supreme Court deals unions a limited hit in home-care workers case" Is there a pattern here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pollyannaish Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Hahahaha! So let me get this straight. SCOTUS rules that a closely held company doesn't have to include a few kinds of birth control coverage in their insurance benefits. But the government can provide these benefits in other ways if they wish. So now, women could not use the 16 free options available to her and buy additional coverage through the government to get a few more options. OR she could go down to Walmart and pay it herself fr about $9 per month. My God, it's proof the world is coming to an end! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggingtree Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 On the Hobby Lobby Case John Yoo June 30, 2014 The Hobby Lobby case was, in my judgment, an easy one, a point that’s made very well by Justice Alito’s straightforward analysis in the opinion. The logic is simple: (1) corporations are persons because Congress said so in the Dictionary Act; (2) Hobby Lobby’s right to religious freedom is violated, under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, because the contraceptives requirement for mandatory insurance supplied by employers contravenes the owner’s sincere beliefs; (3) the government did not explore any less burdensome alternatives to the mandate. More importantly, however, this case shows the extreme ideological ends pursued by the Obama administration through its legal powers. It is thus of a piece with the Noel Canning recess appointments clause case from last Thursday. In both cases, the President pursued extreme arguments in court to advance an ideological agenda — today, it was to sweep religious minorities into ObamaCare; on Thursday, to create a union-friendly NLRB. http://ricochet.com/hobby-lobby-case/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggingtree Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 6 Stupid Arguments About Hobby Lobby From Dumb LiberalsJUNE 30, 2014 By Sean Davis The Supreme Court’s decision today affirming the right of business owners to run their businesses in accordance with their religious beliefs has caused no small amount of consternation among the anti-science, functionally illiterate Left. The Supreme Court just banned birth control forever. Male justices just imprisoned women across America. If you don’t buy my stuff for me, it means you want to ban that stuff. And so on and so forth. Thanks to the wonder of the Internet, we have been given a wealth of riches when it comes to stupid arguments from stupid people. Here are the 6 dumbest arguments from dumb liberals about the Hobby Lobby decision. 1) The Supreme Court is denying access to birth control. http://thefederalist.com/2014/06/30/6-stupid-arguments-about-hobby-lobby-from-dumb-liberals/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggingtree Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Hobby Lobby Decision Is An Encouraging Step, Not The End Of The Debate JUNE 30, 2014 By Eric Teetsel In a momentous decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that closely-held corporations cannot be forced to include coverage for contraceptives in their employer-sponsored health plans. Applying the rationale of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), the Court held that the government failed to use the least-restrictive-means in a Health and Human Services regulation mandating contraceptive coverage, infringing the rights of faith-based businesses Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood. The case is an encouraging early milestone as people of faith seek to preserve religious liberties incompatible with expanding sexual mores. The Hobby Lobby decision affirms that RFRA protections apply to closely held corporations (that is, corporations 50 percent owned by 5 or fewer persons) http://thefederalist.com/2014/06/30/hobby-lobby-decision-is-an-encouraging-step-not-the-end-of-the-debate/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 7 REASONS CONSERVATIVES SHOULDN'T BUY MEDIA'S SUPREME COURT HYPE On Monday, conservatives across the country celebrated Justice Samuel Alito’s decisions in Harris v. Quinn and the so-called Hobby Lobby case. Harris v. Quinn established that states could not force home health care providers into unions; the Hobby Lobby case decided that closely-held, for-profit corporations owned by religious people could not be forced to pay for the contraceptive care of their employees. Right-wingers on Twitter, talk radio, and throughout the blogosphere hailed the decisions as great conservative victories; leftists hailed them as great defeats (including the execrable Sandra Fluke, who falsely tweeted that the Supreme Court had somehow granted blanket ability for employers to reject birth control coverage). Conservatives would be significantly wiser to react with caution. SCOTUS Always Limits Freedom Broadly But Makes Exceptions Narrowly. Before Hobby Lobby, the Supreme Court ruled that Obamacare could mandate that employers purchase health insurance plans for their employees, and that individuals had to buy health insurance plans or face a fine. That left the door open to complete government control of how Americans receive their health care. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/06/30/7-reasons-conservatives-SCOTUS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickydog Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 "I will NEVER even park near Hobby Lobby again. Ever." Whooo. So TAKE THAT, Hobby Lobby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggingtree Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Worker beware, know thy employer's religionTomlinson: I may have made a horrible mistake... snip In the Houston Chronicle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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