Jonathan Mann grabbed his guitar and beautifully captured a passage from Justice Ruth Ginsburg’s 35-page dissent of the recent Hobby Lobby decision.
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Today, June 30, 2014, will go down in history. The US Supreme Court decided that the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate, when applied to what is called a “closely-held” business, violates the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Those without the time to read Justice Ginsburg’s absolutely brilliant 35-page dissent (Read All Here) can still enjoy the passages captured (and remixed!) by Jonathan Mann
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Sing it baby!!! Ruth Ginsburg’s words are the ringing sound of truth amidst a cacophany of irrationality!!!
Very disappointing …. That’s all I have to say
We DO have to stand together. Email HL and tell them they’ve lost your business. It sure ain’t the women who work for minimum wages who work at HL that were on video on tv tonight cheering this decision. Most of them looked past childbearing years; all looked wealthy enough to buy and IUD if they chose. Watching them cheer for the less wealthy to lose coverage and control over their family size was enough to make me get to work to put an end to this. We have to stand together and keep on pushing until the majority’s voice… Read more »
Hobby Lobby’s wage scale is one of the highest in their sector. They also have particularly low turnover and high employee satisfaction. Of course none of that matters now because the owners are horrible people for not wanting to pay for other people’s birth control. Gotta be outraged because some people aren’t toeing the line!
CW,
If only the world were so black and white! Hobby Lobby has done some good things as well. Today’s absurdity can’t erase those things, nor should those things hide absurdity. Costco is praised for treating workers well, but some of their products are cheap because they are the product of brutal slave labor that has resulted in murders. So it goes. The grays between….
In ruling for Hobby Lobby no one is being prevented from obtaining contraception. No one’s rights are being violated. The court acknowledged that government does not have the right to compel someone to perform an act that violates a deeply held religious belief. Sounds perfectly rational to me. You may disagree with Hobby Lobby’s opinion on morning after pills, but calling the ruling absurd is black and white thinking in itself.
Good point and every person I’ve talk to about Hobby Lobby “thought” it was all contraceptives where it only applied to 4 of 20. Employees still have 16 birth controls available
I get a kick out of being told this isn’t a black and white situation when that was my point to begin with. The progressive outrage machine gets cranked up, gets all the facts wrong and does more damage than good. This store was considered for years to be a great hourly employer yet, because they don’t want to offer a small segment of benefits, are being castigated. You see this same black and white mentality whenever anyone violates a progressive shibboleth; unless they are members of a minority population then they can get away with anything. The hypocrisy is… Read more »
The real problem is the “for profit corporations can have religion.”
A corporation is established to create a separate legal entity from the owners to limit legal liability for the owners. The same logic which says that the owners can’t be sued directly for the actions of the corporation should also go in reverse i.e. the rights that are accorded to the owners as individuals, do not extend from them into this legally separate entity, the corporation.
You may wish it to be so but you’re not describing incorporation as it legally exists.
Majority voice?? That’s not our form of government. It’s the right of the individual, which is why this case came down the way it did. Absent the ACA this wouldn’t have been an issue, but the government forced its hand.
Jonathan Mann, I just fell in love with you.
Agreed, Joanna! There’s a Hobby Lobby right next door to me. I’m thinking of taking speakers over and putting this on repeat!