Monday, June 30, 2014

Reactions to Hobby Lobby

++The reactions to the Hobby Lobby case were predictable. Rinse Penis hailed it as a blow against Obama's attempt to suppress religious freedom. Bobby Jindal said the same. But Jack Jenkins article at ThinkProgress captures the hostility of religious organizations to the case with numerous amicus curiae cases by religious organizations against Hobby Lobby. First is the theological objections by evangelical Christians about a corporations claiming any religious beliefs and secondly a corporation's owners having preferred religious beliefs over their employees. As Ruth Bader Ginsberg wrote in her blistering dissent the majority opinion opens a whole pandora's box of cases. The tenuous reasoning behind the majority position is the exceptions it clarified such as this doesn't not apply to vaccinations and blood transfusions as if they already knew they were out of bounds.

++The second aspect is that five male judges decided on contraceptions from a patriarchal, Catholic perspective.  Harry Reid responded that if the Court won't protect women's health than Democrats will. 

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