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Hobby Lobby: Well Throw Away a Million Dollars a Day so Female Employees Dont Get Comprehensive Health Care
As of the new year, the Christian-owned-but-secularly-run chain Hobby Lobby has to provide its employees with health coverage including contraception (including birth control) thanks to ObamaCare.
But the owners dont want to do that and theyre prepared to pay a penalty of $1,300,000 a day to make sure they get their way:
All theyre asking for is a narrow exemption from the law that says they dont have to provide drugs they believe cause abortions, Hobby Lobby attorney Kyle Duncan, a general counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, told CNN affiliate KFOR in November. Our basic point is the government cant put a corporation in the position of choosing between its faith and following the law.
I guess if corporations are people, corporations also have religious beliefs ?
Theres a major problem with Duncans statement, though, and Fred Clark does a nice job of summarizing it:
Duncan carefully says that the company should be exempt from covering medical care they believe causes abortion.
Duncan is careful to say that because he is aware that the drugs in question do not, in fact, cause abortion. Emergency contraception is just exactly that contraception. It does not end or interfere with an existing pregnancy.
It doesnt matter if the evangelical gazillionaire owners of Hobby Lobby believe that emergency contraception causes abortions. It does not do that.
As of the new year, the Christian-owned-but-secularly-run chain Hobby Lobby has to provide its employees with health coverage including contraception (including birth control) thanks to ObamaCare.
But the owners dont want to do that and theyre prepared to pay a penalty of $1,300,000 a day to make sure they get their way:
All theyre asking for is a narrow exemption from the law that says they dont have to provide drugs they believe cause abortions, Hobby Lobby attorney Kyle Duncan, a general counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, told CNN affiliate KFOR in November. Our basic point is the government cant put a corporation in the position of choosing between its faith and following the law.
I guess if corporations are people, corporations also have religious beliefs ?
Theres a major problem with Duncans statement, though, and Fred Clark does a nice job of summarizing it:
Duncan carefully says that the company should be exempt from covering medical care they believe causes abortion.
Duncan is careful to say that because he is aware that the drugs in question do not, in fact, cause abortion. Emergency contraception is just exactly that contraception. It does not end or interfere with an existing pregnancy.
It doesnt matter if the evangelical gazillionaire owners of Hobby Lobby believe that emergency contraception causes abortions. It does not do that.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/01/03/hobby-lobby-well-throw-away-a-million-dollars-a-day-so-female-employees-dont-get-comprehensive-health-care/
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Hobby Lobby: We値l Throw Away a Million Dollars a Day (Original Post)
ismnotwasm
Jan 2013
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(52,374 posts)1. at least that's one way for the rich to finally pay their fair share....
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)3. Exactly what I was thinking! (nt)
Panasonic
(2,921 posts)2. I hope HL goes into bankruptcy very quickly
and the owners go out of business,out on the street, homeless, penniless and any help refused.
Fuck 'em.
They have already lost my business 15 years ago, and this tidbit confirms it.
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(52,374 posts)5. also, i don't think the "christian-owned-but-secularly-run" term really applies anymore
imposing anti-contraception policies on others isn't exactly running a business in a secular fashion....
Lane1340
(20 posts)6. Excellent and funny Facebook post about this!
Check out "Han Chimpson" on Facebook... https://www.facebook.com/HanChimpson
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)7. i already called hobby lobby and told them they would no longer get my money back in 2005. sign on
door about being a christian company so they would not be opened on sundays. pissed me off and told the manager that his christian coalition mentality was dividing the nation and the behavior of rw christian was hate. i would give my money to said companies. panhandle of texas.