Because all conservatives suppose the law should not apply to them, only to others, from their billionaire plutocrat president to their most lowly street thug and common criminal voter, and that goes double if they're meant to also be religious. Christo-fascism is a powerful movement in the USA.
How did we decide as a society that a religious belief is more important than any other kind of belief? Any American who has no faith automatically is "less than" where religion is privileged.
Disastrously un-American. And when they say "religious employers" they of course mean CHRISTIAN employers. The SC isn't upholding the rights of Muslims or Jews or atheists to impose THEIR religions on employees. Religious zeal = ignorance and selfishness.
That no matter what facts are shown to them, they continue to believe, teach, sell, give away, the same bullshit no matter the facts. It teaches hatred. It teaches prejudice. It teaches lies about reality. It believes in invisible, omnipotent, angry fool that lives in the clouds. Absolute Stupidy.
As long as they are prepared to deal with the fallout of being held accountable to their own Biblical tenets as well as people fleeing faux-Christianity even more than they are already. They either serve God or they serve mammon; they serve God or themselves. There is no middle ground here.
Our Founding Fathers are rolling over in their graves. Then knew the poison that religion was when part of government. Anyone with a sense of history knows that millions have died because they worshipped the wrong god.
Having 6 Catholics or Evangelicals on the Court is ridiculous partly because it is SO unrepresentative of the public at large. They are giving preference to religion over anything really.
The difference between non-profit and for-profit churches is absurd. They are all for profit. It is simply the difference that some call the profit "reserves" and pay the officials crazy remuneration. I have never heard of a church that went bankrupt. They all make money
Screw them. Boycott their butts. Continue to start and support businesses that do the right thing for people, animals, and the planet. We have the power.
Religion is the #1 creator of hatred, prejudice, anger, stupidity, and special privileges. They are the worst thing to ever happen to humanity, but the courts give them leeway to screw everybody not part of their insane beliefs. Fuck God. Fuck Religion. Fuck Stupidity.
To paraphrase Casablanca. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you. The Roberts Court built by the anti-American Federalist Society, has a long history of granting special rights to religious organisations.
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All the special benefits of religion; but none of the special limits, now that the Establishment Clause is almost gone.
I, a retired Episcopal Priest, will do everything I can to avoid and denigrate these businesses. Hobby Lobby lost me 20 years ago.
Since they packed the court with Catholics I don’t expect anything else out of them.