"Can corporations pray? The next expansion of corporate 'personhood'"

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Can corporations pray? The next expansion of corporate 'personhood'

By Michael Hiltzik at the LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-pray-20131028,0,5675190.story#axzz2j7xOZOvB

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Now that the Supreme Court has endowed corporations with the right to have their voices heard via unrestrained spending on political campaigns (in the Citizens United decision of 2010), there aren't many frontiers left to test the idea that corporations are "persons."


But one test is heading our way with the speed of a freight train. This is the claim that corporations can have a religious conscience -- more to the point, that they can impose their own religious beliefs on their employees.

The issue is raised by three corporations' challenges to Obamacare, specifically its requirement that employer health plans cover a wide range of contraceptives. The companies' owners maintain that the rule infringes on their enterprises' free expression of religion. Lower courts have split on whether a federal law forbidding the government to "substantially burden a person's exercise of religion" applies to corporations. If it does, the road is wide open for employers to allow their religious beliefs to govern how they do business. Two appellate courts have ruled that for-profit corporations don't have religious rights and a third says they might; what this split means is that the issue is on a certain path to the Supreme Court.

The implications of granting corporations the right to free expression of religion are horrific. The precedent, writes David H. Gans of the Constitutional Accountability Center, would allow companies to fire workers "for engaging in all manner of activities that may not conform to the religious code of the company’s owners, including using contraceptives or terminating a pregnancy, becoming pregnant out of wedlock, or marrying a person of the same sex.”




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[gopiscrap]

1. fuck that bullshit

[mindwalker_i]

2. Can corporations get tumors?