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Hobby Lobby Won; I want OUT OF THIS FUCKING COUNTRY.
Topic Started: Jun 30 2014, 06:09 PM (796 Views)
Sonia Chaud
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Companies have religious rights!

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"The Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the law at issue in the case, has never been applied to for-profit entities. The Court had to decide whether corporations even have religious exercise rights – making the beliefs of the employer synonymous with the entire company – and weigh that question against the potential harms to the employees."
Harms to the employees? You're not forced to get contraception if your plan covers it.
Also:
"If ”closely held” corporations are people with their own religious beliefs, does this mean these for-profit businesses can also claim religious exemptions in other areas? In other words, if you work for a ”closely held” corporation and your employer has moral objections to blood transfusions and/or vaccinations, are they out, too? According to Amy Howe’s analysis, the answer is no – this is a narrower ruling that applies only to the contraceptive mandate."
So....corporations are people...but only when it comes to certain parts of the law, because I certainly don't see them getting hauled around for their tax loopholes.
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Yes, because corporations will TOTALLY not abuse this "privilege".
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Jun 30 2014, 07:32 PM
Yes, because corporations will TOTALLY not abuse this "privilege".
Pretty much, although luckily this ruling only applies to the ACA Contraceptive mandate, not a blanket "Religious reasons set you free".
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-Arem-
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And the Affordable Health Care Act just got that weaker.
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Blacklightning
Nov 14 2011, 02:48 AM
I like it when people use the word "gay" in any context other than a homosexual one - it only proves that they have the maturity of a five year old, as if their obsession with shooters didn't already do a good job of pointing that out. It's also pretty amusing that he pointed out Skyrim considering the fact that, y'know, it's set in the bloody medival era and doesn't even have muskets, let alone generic modern firearms.

But just for fun, let's play around with his logic a bit.

game - gun = gay
game + gun = -gay
game + gun + Arem = ???


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Sonia Chaud
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Well, with one crack in the "Corporations =/= People" wall, more challenges could come
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Welp, I'm going to Canada. Anyone wanna come with? I hear they have some nice bacon.
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Take all of this with a grain of salt.

It all seems nice and all, but the percentage of workers that are in fact full-time is absent, which means that it could be a very low number which would make the point moot.
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Blacklightning
Nov 14 2011, 02:48 AM
I like it when people use the word "gay" in any context other than a homosexual one - it only proves that they have the maturity of a five year old, as if their obsession with shooters didn't already do a good job of pointing that out. It's also pretty amusing that he pointed out Skyrim considering the fact that, y'know, it's set in the bloody medival era and doesn't even have muskets, let alone generic modern firearms.

But just for fun, let's play around with his logic a bit.

game - gun = gay
game + gun = -gay
game + gun + Arem = ???


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Sonia Chaud
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It's not that it's Hobby Lobby, but the fact that any corporation could somehow get around their legal obligations under the Affordable Care Act.

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Edited by Sonia Chaud, Jul 1 2014, 05:14 PM.
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Issac F***ing Asimov
 
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-Arem-
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Oh, I'm aware of that. I was just posting what else was "going on." Naturally, I criticized that link too.
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Blacklightning
Nov 14 2011, 02:48 AM
I like it when people use the word "gay" in any context other than a homosexual one - it only proves that they have the maturity of a five year old, as if their obsession with shooters didn't already do a good job of pointing that out. It's also pretty amusing that he pointed out Skyrim considering the fact that, y'know, it's set in the bloody medival era and doesn't even have muskets, let alone generic modern firearms.

But just for fun, let's play around with his logic a bit.

game - gun = gay
game + gun = -gay
game + gun + Arem = ???


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