Posted on 03/21/2014 2:27:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
When Hobby Lobby makes its case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, conservative Christians won't be the only ones paying attention.
After a year and a half of opposing the Affordable Care Act's birth control mandate, the evangelical-owned craft store chain has become shorthand for the corporate fight for religious liberty—one that concerns not only Obamacare critics, or fellow Christians who worry that certain contraception methods are abortifacients, but now, Americans overall.
It's expected to be the most high-profile case the Supreme Court reviews this year. CT can refresh your memory. [Infographics below.]
CNN called Hobby Lobby's oral arguments, scheduled for March 25, a "high-stakes encore" to Obamacare. Left-leaning news site Mother Jones warned readers about the potential "revolutionary outcomes, from upending a century's worth of settled corporate law to opening the floodgates to religious challenges to every possible federal statute to gutting the contraceptive mandate."
Hobby Lobby's case—to be argued along with Mennonite-owned furniture makers Conestoga Wood Specialties—represents the fate of nearly 100 other businesses and non-profits who have filed suit against the contraceptive mandate. (Churches and other houses of worship had been granted an exemption.)
Their legal challenge has generated an outpouring of amicus briefs—filings of relevant opinion and testimony from interested stakeholders who aren't directly involved, such as congressmen, scholars, religious groups, and theologians. With 84 filings, the case represents "among the largest amicus efforts ever," according to The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.
Religion News Service summarizes the two central questions for the Supreme Court to consider:
* Does Hobby Lobby as a corporation have religious rights protected by the First Amendment?
* Have those rights been violated under a 20-year-old statute that sets a high bar for government interference of religious freedom?
(Excerpt) Read more at christianitytoday.com ...
Given where we are as a country, I fully expect the Supreme Court not only to deny Hobby Lobby’s claim of religious freedom but to order its owners to turn over their business to the Human Rights Campaign.
The Roberts court is not Constitutional. Crooked lawyers in black robes aka Kangaroo.
If Hobby Lobby loses. . . .I’m guessing the stores will be emptied within a month, and all the employees laid off. . . .
. . . .And the Ear Leader will call it a “great victory”. . .
All Christians need to pray regularly for this case to be settled in favor of Hobby Lobby. As their freedom goes, so does ours.
This should be a no-brainer. The libs were up in arms when this very same court decided that ‘Corporations’ are ‘People’ for campaign bundling/funding - something the ‘Rats are VERY good at!
It only follows that if ‘Corporations’ are indeed ‘People,’ then these ‘people’ have a right to their religious freedom.
Of course, I’m just a well-armed, bitter Bible-clinger. WTF do I know? LOL!
I'm convinced that that the attorneys who are helping citizens to fight constitutionally indefensible Obamacare Democratcare got indoctrinated with post-FDR era, PC interpretations of the Constitution in law school as much as the liberal law students did. After all, what does it take to stop Democratcare dead in its tracks other than honest justices and the two statements below from a Supreme Court opinion?
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. (emphases added)” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Will we EVER KNOW what really happened in this case????
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