On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 05:57:33 +0200, clipka wrote:

> Am 28.07.2014 04:30, schrieb Jim Henderson:
>> On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 03:46:02 +0200, clipka wrote:
>>
>>> Am 27.07.2014 08:35, schrieb Jim Henderson:
>>>
>>>> I despise SCOTUS' recent decision allowing a corporation to hold
>>>> religious beliefs (say what?) and to impose those beliefs on their
>>>> employees
>>>
>>> You're kiddin', right? Tell me that you're kiddin'...
>>
>> Hobby Lobby?  Tell me you're kiddin' about not hearing about that.
> 
> Huh? Hobby Lobby is obviously an American franchise (at least from what
> I've just looked up on the 'net), so why sould I, as a German, know
> anything about it?

Oh, right - I had you confused with someone who's here in the US.

So, yes, SCOTUS ruled a few weeks ago that Hobby Lobby could, as a 
corporate entity, hold a religious belief, and that they could then make 
business decisions based on that religious belief.  So, the corporation 
believes that abortion is murder, and that certain contraceptives cause 
abortions (even though they factually don't), and that the company could 
thus exclude coverage for those drugs from the company's health plans 
because what they believe those drugs do (again, they don't) violates the 
corporation's conscience.

As if corporations were living, breathing, thinking persons that could 
believe something and have a conscience.

Jim



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"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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