Posted on 03/06/2013 6:47:29 AM PST by marshmallow
A US district judge in the District of Columbia has refused to halt the implementation of the HHS mandate against Freshway Foods and Freshway Logistics, two businesses owned by Francis and Philip Gilardi.
The brothers do not wish to provide health insurance that covers contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs, and have excluded such coverage from their company insurance policies for the past decade.
The Court finds that the Freshway Corporations are not the alter egos of the Gilardis for the limited purpose of asserting the Gilardis religious beliefs, ruled Judge Emmet Sullivan............
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It is interesting that the courts can “Piercing the corporate veil” to assign the corporations “rights and responsibilities” to the stockholders in certain situations such as when there is a very close relationship between the stockholder and the corporation. But in this case the judge found that it doesn’t work the other way around.
This will have to go to the Supreme court.
But by then businesses like this may go under.
Hobby Lobby may not have a snowball’s chance.
You will not be allowed freedom of conscious. Unless, of course, you practice Islam.
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“Hobby Lobby may not have a snowballs chance.”
There are many other waiting in the wings.
This court is evil. Obama is evil. ObamaCare is evil. That’s the bottom line in this ruling.
But if they were Muslim, no problemo because they are exempt for religious purposes.
So change the corporation’s by-laws to include religious belief components.
Whats wrong with that?
The court is saying that you incorporated to separate your personal liability from the business liability. I can sort of see that argument. But the Corporation can also be run as it sees fit by the majority of thr stock holders, in the case the Gilardis. seems the way out is there.
But I am not a lawyer no do I play one on tv.
And a certain middle-eastern death cult is specifically exempted from obamacare because insurance is “haram.”
Meanwhile, the government is forcing Catholics to choose between their religion and fines or jail.
We live in a totalitarian dictatorship that is actively trying to eliminate Christianity and promote the middle eastern death cult.
Meaning what?
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