Religion run amok? Hobby Lobby's case comes to the Supreme Court
By Robin Abcarian
March 21, 2014, 1:46 p.m.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court is slated to hear 90 minutes of oral arguments in a case that will determine whether bosses who have religious objections to birth control can deny their female employees the contraceptive coverage to which they are entitled under federal law.
We’re not talking about bosses who are nuns. Or bosses who run parochial schools, or Catholic-affiliated hospitals, or other explicitly religious organizations.
We’re talking about bosses who own secular, for-profit businesses -- crafts stores, in the case of Hobby Lobby, and kitchen cabinet makers, in the case of Conestoga Woods. If the Supreme Court agrees with these bosses, good luck to anyone who works for an employer who objects to “the gay lifestyle” or childhood immunizations on religious grounds.
“Where will this end?” said Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, during a conference call Thursday with reporters that included representatives from Planned Parenthood, the ACLU and the National Women's Law Center. “What could be next? Could our bosses decide on religious grounds they don’t want to offer vaccinations? Or HIV medications?”
http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-ra-religion-case-run-amok-hobby-lobby-supreme-court-20140321,0,2434477.story#axzz2whpXu4VE
The audio recordings of all oral arguments heard by the Supreme Court of the United States are available to the public at the end of each argument week. The audio recordings are posted on Fridays after Conference.
http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_audio.aspx
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