RE: What would the Founding Fathers have said if someone had proposed that the federal government should have the power to enact laws restricting the free exercise of religion?
I’m not defending Ginsberg, but apparently her reasoning is that if we allow this for Hobby Lobby, what’s to stop ANY business owner from providing LEGITIMATE healthcare ( e.g. vaccination, blood transfusion ) under the guise of religious belief?
That’s why I prefer to argue this on the basis of a greater idea -— FREEDOM.
Whether we like it or not, businesses are in the business of making money, not providing for healthcare.
They DO provide healthcare because they believe that doing so will help retain good people.
If their healthcare does not provide the exact service that you want, YOU ARE NOT OBLIGATED TO WORK FOR THEM.
That’s how a free society should work.
“I’m not defending Ginsberg, but apparently her reasoning is that if we allow this for Hobby Lobby, what’s to stop ANY business owner from providing LEGITIMATE healthcare ( e.g. vaccination, blood transfusion ) under the guise of religious belief?”
I would like to say, “common sense,” the application of the reasonable man standard. To which you might well reply, “Have you (dsc) been living under a rock?”
Back in the days of the draft, you couldn’t get conscientious objector status just by saying you were Amish; you had to prove it.
What legitimate religion believes in refusing all medical treatment? Christian Scientists? Well, there aren’t that many of them, and I did say “legitimate” religion.
It’s something that can be worked out. Once word gets around that “guises” get you fined, things will settle down.