What a joke. Corporations are people who practice religion, but only in the case of contraception, not with blood transfusions, etc?

This court has become the Council of Guardians. (My apologies to Iran for the comparison, the Council of Guardians probably exercises judicial restraint).

No, putin, it's not that corporations couldn't have religious beliefs about blood transfusion, it's just that the balancing test inherent in RFRA would swing the other way there. Hobby Lobby won because it (a) had religious beliefs and (b) accomodating them was easy -- there are plenty of other ways to provide contraception to those employees, and in any case, the government had already given an exception to non-profits, which pretty well destroyed any claim that this was vital to the nation.

The non-profit exemption was for religious non-profits. The notion of corporations practicing religion is patently absurd.

More judicial activism from a hypocritical court.

Corporations owned by private individuals (not publicly held) are people. Period. Don't like it, go back to your beloved China where the state owns the corporations.

We've had this discussion before. A privately owned business has the right to refuse service to people not in a protected class and to have business practices that don't explicitly violate a constitutional amendment.

Discriminating against customers not in a protected class will result in them losing business generally speaking so it is stupid on their part, but they have the right nonetheless.

Refusing to pay for certain coverage's or requiring certain dress codes of a modest nature will result in them not having the much wider field to recruit from so again it will hurt them in the long run, but it is their right.

No it is not. The Supreme Court ruled in Employment Division v. Smith that the state could impose laws that burdened religious practice of companies if they had a legitimate public interest. In response Congress passed the RFRA raising the bar to "compelling interest". Nonetheless, there is no indication *whatsoever* that this law was meant to be applied to for-profit businesses. The religious right on the court simply read that in, like the judicial activists they are.

Hypocrites writing law from the bench.

Not companies, individuals & groups. This stupid shit with corporate personhood has got me all confused.

I have no problem with this. A company should be allowed to provide (or not provide) whatever services, benefits, or product it wants, to customers or employees alike. Companies are not legally required to provide insurance, therefore they should not be required to provide unnecessary (as in not vital to your living) birth control that can be gotten relatively cheap elsewhere.

"there are plenty of other ways to provide contraception to those employees"

Really, name some.

"provide unnecessary (as in not vital to your living) birth control that can be gotten relatively cheap elsewhere."

Ignorance. Birth control is often medically necessary for women, it's not just about preventing pregnancy.

Stupid men writing stupid policy from the bench.

Awesome - another bitch-slap for that cunt Obama.

"A company should be allowed to provide (or not provide) whatever services, benefits, or product it wants, to customers or employees alike."

Companies are obligated to comply with basic fucking labor law. I guess, unless you're a religious fanatic, then the state bends over backwards to treat you like a "person". A big fucking joke.

"Awesome - another bitch-slap for that cunt Obama."

Oh shut up, libtard. We all know you voted for Obama.

This also -- Public Unions rightfully take it up the ass too...what an awesome SCOTUS season this has been! lol

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SUPREME_COURT_UNION_FEES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-06-30-10-08-45

Putin - go crawl back into your closet with your little friends. It has been so pleasant without you after you went into hiding when Russia revealed itself to be everything you claim it isn't, cunt.

Yeah you cant get your policies implemented democratically so you have to use your tyrants in robes. Remember what babies you conservative fuckfaces were in the 60s and 70s? Now you love you some judicial activism.

"Companies are obligated to comply with basic fucking labor law."

Basic fucking labor law has NEVER before *required* companies to provide benefits, assmunch. go the fuck away and douche yourself - your brain is clearly clogged.

"Putin - go crawl back into your closet with your little friends. It has been so pleasant without you after you went into hiding when Russia revealed itself to be everything you claim it isn't, cunt."

*Yawn*. Says the libtard who loves Snowden.

Judicial activism? They have removed unconstitutional laws, moron. That is the purpose of the Supreme Court. You have no fucking idea what "judicial activism" is. What a moron.

"Basic fucking labor law has NEVER before *required* companies to provide benefits, assmunch. go the fuck away and douche yourself - your brain is clearly clogged."

You don't know what you're talking about, as usual. Go back to your trollbridge.

"They have removed unconstitutional laws, moron. That is the purpose of the Supreme Court. You have no fucking idea what "judicial activism" is. What a moron."

They're not unconstitutional, they simply read crap into the law that doesn't exist. They're implementing policy from the bench, breaking with past precedent. You don't know what activism means because you're a partisan hack.

Putin, perhaps you are confusing this country with another one of your favorite communist hell-holes. You truly are a moron.

This case is a conservative sideshow. With the bad press about Obamacare drying up because people are realizing that it actually *helps* people, conservatives are forced to claim victory on legal technicalities that cling to the threads of corporate "personhood", which are the only people that conservatives really care about anyway.

Putin - blah blah blah blah....deny reality deny reality deny reality....blah blah blah blah blah.

It so fun to watch the little communist dance monkey sit and spin.

Do it some more, monkey-boy.

I love it when comrade Putin gets all red faced and blustery.

I wonder, is it easy to sit and spin when your index finger is buried so deeply in your own ass?

I'm going to start a company that's opposed to providing medicine to white male diabetics for "religious" reasons.

"Do it some more, monkey-boy."

Get a job, troll.

Putin, what "basic fucking labor law" says companies have to provide birth control to women?

And what kind of medical reasons are there for birth control, beside to stop pregnancy? I'm not familiar with this, as I'm not a) a doctor or b) a woman, so pardon my "ignorance," if you would.

"I'm going to start a company that's opposed to providing medicine to white male diabetics for "religious" reasons"

Gobahead, them try to recruit me and see that I'm not available for you at any price. That's how free market capitalism works.