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In reply to the discussion: Five years of Obama and what do we get? [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)health insurance that covers birth control?
It's about discrimination against EMPLOYEES in the workplace.
SEC. 702. This title shall not apply to an employer with respect to the employment of aliens outside any State, or to a religious corporation, association, or society with respect to the employment of individuals of a particular religion to perform work connected with the carrying on by such corporation, association, or society of its religious activities or to an educational institution with respect to the employment of individuals to perform work connected with the educational activities of such institution.
http://employment.findlaw.com/employment-discrimination/title-vii-of-the-civil-rights-act-of-1964-equal-employment.html
Today the Court holds only that the ministerial exception bars an employment discrimination suit brought on behalf of a minister, challenging her churchs decision to fire her. The Court expresses no view on whether the exception bars other types of suits. Pp. 2021.
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-553.pdf
What does that case have to do with the ACA issue? Is the religious organization in it planning to fire employees?