SUBMITTED BY ELAINE MAGLIARO
Mark Fiore says that since corporations got their free speech rights—they’re now fighting to get freedom of religion. He adds, “With the “Hobby Lobby” case before the Supreme Court, the contraception mandate in the Affordable Care Act may fall and corporations may get the freedom to worship. Corporations are rapidly becoming real, live humans!” Like many of us, he thinks the HL case that is now before the Supreme Court “is about a couple of for-profit corporations wanting to foist their religious views on their employees.”
Fiore:
This is not about an individual human wanting to practice their religion as they see fit, this is about an inanimate corporation wanting to impose specific morals on employees. If corporations get religion, just think of the things they could do with it!
Why stop with your run-of-the-mill religions that don’t like birth control? Let’s dive back into the days of the Aztecs. What if a corporation worshipped like the Aztecs and demanded human sacrifice? (Okay, more than they already do demand sacrifice of humans.) I can’t see how this argument will stand up to legal challenge but it’s looking like it may do just that.
NOTE: The video is below the fold.
Religious Liberty for Corporations
Nicole Plyler Fisk
Gene Howington
FFS Guest Blogger
Joy of Fishes
Chuck Stanley
shortfinals
Terry Welshans
ann li-summers
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Flowers For Socrates 
As stated….. How many religious exception can a corporation claim….. Should a catholic bishop be able to ban gays from working for a corporation because they have a seriously held religious belief…. Hmmmmmm….
Elaine,
As usual Mark Fiore nails it. There are so many religions to choose from though so I foresee a whole new areas of copywrite law opening up to handle it.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/01/philosopher-a-c-grayling-the-creation-museum-seems-like-a-human-rights-crime/
Just because I don’t have anywhere else to post it.
And because I haven’t been able to figure out how employees of HL could bring a civil rights action if women health provisions are stripped form the insurance on religious grounds held by the equity ownners
A real problem here is what defines a “religion” with regard to the state. How does the government distinguish between what IS and IS NOT a religious belief? Is Scientology a religion? How about Mormonism? Those were founded by specific modern people claiming divine insight. If those are religions, is the Flying Spaghetti Monster a religion? Could the Aynish claim their beliefs as a religion? If his Noodliness, or The Aynish Fountainhead claims that paying taxes supports evil, can they just disobey such laws?
Can Byron found a new religion that rejects all forms of involuntary taxation? When does somebody become a convert to a religion, can they do that just by saying so?
http://touch.americablog.com/americablog/#!/entry/corporate-world-scared-silly-that-hobby-lobby-will-win-aca,53397573025312186ced4067
Looks like the corporate world should be scared silly if Hobby Lobby wins. That corporate veil can be pierced both ways from what I understand. I wonder how the unintended consequences will be tolerated when it negatively affects corporations. Fiore hits it again, I love that guy.
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