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Posted on 06/30/2014 2:18:49 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In its decision Monday in the Hobby Lobby case, the conservative Supreme Court majority that upheld corporations' religious objections to birth control spends an inordinate amount of time defending itself from the reasoning and wrath of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's dissent.
Justice Samuel Alito, whose name is on the decision, alludes no fewer than 24 times to the "principal dissent," which Ginsburg wrote for the four-member minority. Plainly, he felt Ginsburg's powerful intellect breathing down his neck as he tried to find a path to upholding the Hobby Lobby parties' attack on women's rights without expanding corporate "personhood" too much.
It will be said that Monday's decision walked a fine line, giving the Hobby Lobby owners what they sought without opening the floodgates to religious objections to a wide range of laws and regulations.
The court has signaled that it's open as never before to claims by private businesses for exemptions from laws that apply to the rest of us, based on religious beliefs that can't be objectively verified. And if they win, we'll pay. Ginsburg's question is apt: What's next?
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
The smell must have been horrible.
Has "intellect" become another name for halitosis?
Alito wins. Ginsberg loses. It is settled law.
Transvestites can have surgeries on TAXPAYER money.
That is much more OBSCENE THAN THIS.
And then there is the case of the VA buying 1/2 BILLION dollars in SOLAR PANELS while VETERANS due to OBAMA incompetence...
No, we don’t want to pay, that is the point!
[ Alito wins. Ginsberg loses. It is settled law. ]
It is only settled law if it comes out in favor of the liberals
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Hiltzik is a huge leftist, like practically everyone at the Times. I would discount anything he says on this issue.
For many years our health insurance plans did not include contraception and I don’t ever recall any hardship. With contraceptives now cheap and available everywhere without any stigma why is this such a problem???
“Ginsburg’s powerful intellect”
If that “intellect” consists of agreeing with & repeating anything ever written by Eleanor Roosevelt, then it is to laugh.
Actually, if the liberals win...we pay.
Gov't mandated that we must pay for these atrocious items. Liberal always force us to pay.
Color me glad.
With a capital G.
That’s where I quit reading, no time for stupidity like that.
Wow, liberals really do live in a fantasy world.
Ginsburg’s “powerful intellect”? I’ve been reading her opinions for many years now, and her reasoning could be described many ways... none of which include the terms “powerful intellect”. That’s even before she started sleeping through cases, and even before her court opinions started sounding like she was meandering her way towards some liberal shibboleth like a senile dementia patient shuffling around the retirement home.
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...Has “intellect” become another name for halitosis?...
Snort!
I can only assume that since the error hasn't been corrected yet across the media that they're referring to the decision as withholding birth control to inflame passions.
Besides that, nobody is telling the affected employees that they can't have abortion-inducing medications. They'll have to pay for it themselves.
The media has become pathetic.
“laws that apply to the rest of us, based on religious beliefs that can’t be objectively verified “
Kinda like Global Warming huh, LA times
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