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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe shortest and most perfect summation of the Hobby Lobby ruling ever articulated.
"Conservative business owners don't have to obey laws if they don't feel like it."
It's not hyperbole. It's the literal fact of the ruling.
And since there is no possible basis for such a thing in law or ethics of any kind, it's null and void as a ruling of law.
As such, the Executive branch should continue to enforce the contraception requirement. Let conservatives escalate their judicial coup to impeachment proceedings and see what that gets them, if they're so inclined.
Uncle Joe
(59,913 posts)Thanks for the thread, True Blue Door.
littlemissmartypants
(24,847 posts)calimary
(83,841 posts)Glad you're here! You sure boiled it down! That's it - at its very most basic. This one went directly into my quotes file!
Hekate
(94,107 posts)Stryst
(714 posts)that since all of the justices who voted in favor of Hobby Lobby were Roman Catholic * that the Pope is allowed to nullify the laws of the United States.
*to the best of my knowledge based on some quick research.
The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)"Justice Marshall has made his decision. Let him enforce it."
Baitball Blogger
(47,663 posts)Free to usurp the rights of others, free of consequences.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)You write that "there is no possible basis for such a thing in law or ethics of any kind...." Unfortunately, there is at least some basis in law. The Court relied on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which IMO goes too far in granting religious exemptions to laws of general applicability.
polichick
(37,507 posts)Then things will get interesting.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)Hobby Lobby is a license to discriminate, a license to never have to comply with laws you don't like. It is absolute madness.