Breaking news, no details yet, the Supreme Court had ruled 5-4, just like I predicted earlier (though not a hard prediction to make), in favor of religious freedom in Sebelius v Hobby Lobby.
Details to follow.
USA Today starts out with an interesting analysis
The Supreme Court advanced the cause of religious freedom Monday in the most closely watched case of its term, ruling that companies cannot be forced to offer insurance coverage for birth control methods they equate with abortion.
Damn, religious freedom, how about that?
In the end, the conservatives led by Justice Samuel Alito ruled that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act protects closely held for-profit corporations — those controlled by a limited number of shareholders — from the law’s so-called “contraception mandate.” But they stopped short of a sweeping assertion that corporations can practice religion in the same way individuals can under the Constitution.
So a very narrow opinion, based more on the Religious Restoration Act, and there were still 4 Justices that cared not a whit for neither the law nor the Constitution.
CBS News has the most bat guano crazy I’ve run across so far, not even making any attempt to run anything but a highly partisan piece. Fortunately, we’ll certainly see worse as the day goes on.
https://twitter.com/TPCarney/statuses/483609648147488768
That tweet may or may not work posting with Droid.
Jezebel has da crazy-insane
In a yet another ruling that indicates that we’d enjoy better legal protection if we just incorporated our reproductive organs and sent them to murder civilians in Iraq, the Supreme Court has ruled that corporations that are “closely held” cannot be required to provide contraceptive coverage. Which means that under certain circumstances, it’s officially okay, according to the highest court in the US, for a woman’s boss to determine what sort of pregnancy prevention methods she can obtain with her compensation package. This is the most Monday Monday to ever have Mondayed. And it’s not even 11 am.
By this definition, employees should be able to determine every aspect of what a company offers for compensation.
https://twitter.com/WilliamTeach/statuses/483654287868719104
More at Twitchy, which also has lots more insane Tweets from Lefties.
less birth control equals more abortions
So, people can lay for it out of pocket. You liberals are cheap with your own money
Conservative “men”: Your boner pills are still covered!
It’s been ruled that corporations practice religion! Corporations are people, my friend.
So if your CEO is a Jehovah’s Witness, the company insurance plan can now refuse to cover your child’s emergency blood transfusions. If you want your child to live, you can pay for it out of pocket.
If your CEO is a Muslim, good luck getting the insurance plan to pay for your new heart valve!
If your CEO is an evangelical Christian, kiss your AIDS medicine good-bye.
Perhaps the Court is conspiring to get Americans insisting on a single-payer system and get businesses from between you and your doctor.
Easy, easy. Hobby Lobby in it’s insurance plan covers 16 different kinds of contraception.
Of course, the opinion says nothing of the sort and in fact, says the exact opposite.
Come back when you have read the decision Jeffery. Clearly you have not.