SCOTUS: Hobby Lobby Wins. SCOTUS strikes the contraception mandate

[jamil]

So, in order to exercise your first amendment religious rights, you now have to have the statement on file with the federal government?

How the hell does that square with freedom of speech or religion? How can they coerce this political speech (form 700) and condition it on deprivation of religious freedom if you don't?

Then, as a matter of law, the sole purpose of the coerced speech is to justify using laundered tax dollars to pay for private party's contraceptives?

if the law had another purpose for form 700, the government might have a point. In this case the only purpose is to distribute contraceptives.


Wow.

Form 700 has a lot more on it than that.

 

[Fargo]

Form 700 has a lot more on it than that.

Just looked it up.

http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/EBSA-Form-700.pdf

Page 2 of the damn thing explicitly says it is being tendered to force payment for contraceptives.

Wow.

 

[jamil]

Just looked it up.

http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/EBSA-Form-700.pdf

Page 2 of the damn thing explicitly says it is being tendered to force payment for contraceptives.

Wow.

Crap. I was looking at the wrong form 700. Bureaucracy at its finest.

So essentially, you either comply by subverting your long-held religious beliefs or you can't have a religious non-profit. Was that considered in the ruling? Doesn't that effectively prohibit free exercise thereof by not much more than having a calendar date past?

 

[ArcadiaGP]

SCOTUS punts on 'Little Sisters' contraceptive mandate case, handing nuns a (temporary) legal victory:

Supreme Court Sends Little Sisters of the Poor Case Back To Lower Courts - Christine Rousselle

 

[actaeon277]

Oops. Deleted.

 

[Bigtanker]

This looks to be false. This "letter" has been floating around the interwebs for several months. Snopes says false and I couldn't find anything on their web page.

 

[actaeon277]

This looks to be false. This "letter" has been floating around the interwebs for several months. Snopes says false and I couldn't find anything on their web page.

Ok. Deleted.

 

[IndyDave1776]

This looks to be false. This "letter" has been floating around the interwebs for several months. Snopes says false and I couldn't find anything on their web page.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day, but I recommend not trusting Snopes too far. After all, it is a Soros-funded mom and pop shop with no research capabilities beyond searching the internet, only with relatively unlimited time, and then making up their minds what the 'truth' is generally filtered through the lens of their strongly left-leaning worldview.