Posted on 03/25/2014 12:27:37 PM PDT by Rusty0604
During oral arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday which focused on whether the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act violates the free exercise of religion, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan suggested employers who have moral objections to birth control should not provide health care coverage for their employees
Chief Justice Roberts interjected that this was in opposition to what Hobby Lobby presented in its lawsuit. “I thought – I thought that part of the religious commitment of the owners was to provide health care for its employees,” Roberts said and Clements agreed. “Well, if they want to do that, they can just pay a greater salary and let the employees go in on the exchange,” Sotomayor said. The court seemed divided along ideological lines
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It might help fire up the “drop employer coverage, institute single-payer” crowd.
[ Traitor Roberts still is a Traitor. ]
I still think that Roberts was Blackmailed over this with a standing order that he go against it and they expose whatever hidden skeletons they have found in his closet.
I think they have been running him like a puppet eversince they found dirt on him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT7cg7nWUo0
Am I crazy thinking this isn’t a bad idea?
I mean, if you must be under the thumb of this law.
But this begs a question: if this new socialist law basically says everyONE must sign on for insurance (NOT care), why should a whole company be subject to this law? Isn’t it supposed to be that individuals are forced to get it?
So why would a company have to pay extortion fee for “not signing up”? Why would it as a corp have to sign in for insurance?
I’m sure this was not what they were asked, sounds like they want to get back to watching Oprah Couple of unprofessional busybodies.
Telling hobby lobby they are bothered with this silly problem
Obama stooges: To HELL with you and your first amendment.
Wow, they sure are hard up for getting people to join those exchanges. Of course nothing in their argument even remotely relates to the Constitution of the United States of America, but it goes a long way towards addressing the political ends of this White House. The Administration is woefully short of reaching its enrollment targets, so they need Hobby Lobby to help them out a bit on this one.
“If you’re poor, you can go to Planned Parenthood. If you’re not poor, the cost for contraceptives is just not that costly.”
That isn’t the point for these people.
The perception of “The Christian War against WOMEN!!!” is far more important to these liberal ideologues than who pays for a $4 contraceptive.
And you two idiots should resign from the ‘Court’.
No thanks. Camel's nose and all.
As mentioned in related threads, activist justices don’t want anybody to find out that the Supreme Court had previously clarified that the states have never delegated to Congress, via the Constitution the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for public healthcare purposes.
Count on Roberts to vote agains’t HL
““Well, if they want to do that, they can just pay a greater salary and let the employees go in on the exchange,” Sotomayor said. The court seemed divided along ideological lines”
No they will use the savings from not being able to offer the Health Care they wish to, to pay for the fine or tax or penalty whatever the heck they call it.
They already offered insurance that worked for them and their employees but because of Obamacare they will have to pay more for less.
Just because you are a Judge does not mean you are logical.
It’s not anyone’s imagination if they see the left trying to get EVERYONE dependent on government.
Rush mentioned this today - nothing makes a leftist madder than when someone avoids being in the collective.
The court isn't there to decide solutions, only to rule on the legal aspects.
Good luck to any employee who does not want insurance that covers Sandra Slut's abortion, because, there is none under zerOcare.
“Well, if they want to do that, they can just pay a greater salary and let the employees go in on the exchange,”
WTF?
Getting rid of Obamacare is no longer enough. We now have a parasite culture that will elect MORE of these Marxists in order to get stuff through new laws. Look at how persistent this disastrous piece of garbage has been even with all that has been revealed about it.
Nothing short of civil war to restart this country and purge it of the parasites will suffice.
Obama put to fat dykes on the Supreme Court.
They will vote without integrity to anything but their deviancy.
Roberts said it was a tax. You cannot religiously exempt yourself from paying taxes, say, because they are used to fight wars.
But there are certain entities that are exempt from taxes, such as churches.
Unfortunately, I think Hobby Lobby loses.
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