Q::Do you feel that Hobby Lobby has a larger agenda against Obamacare as a whole? That his "religious freedom" is being used as a bit of a fig leaf for hostility to corporations having to participate in insurance in general?
I think that Hobby Lobby (I can’t speak for Hobby Lobby’s entire agenda or lower agenda), but I wouldn’t doubt that it’s there, but I’m not sure about that.
What I am sure about is that the United States Catholic Conference supports their view. Most of the Religious Right supports their view. They do have a a not so hidden agenda and that hidden agenda (or not so hidden agenda) is, “WE want to be able to exempt ourselves from any laws that we don’t like; that we find “religiously’ objectionable.”
So that’s why when some of my friends talk about this as if it’s “merely” about contraception, I have to correct them. I say it’s about EXEMPTION by companies from the laws that apply to the rest of us, the imposed costs or burdens, or doing something which people may find objectionable.
There’s no question that the Religious Right hates the whole ACA. They don’t just only hate the revision of it, they have always hated it. They have always hated this President even before he got it passed. So when you start with that premise, you know this is one of the weapons they want to use to try to tear the statute apart. Having failed to do the thing they had hoped to do earlier, that is two years ago, to dismember the ACA by claiming that a personal mandate (individual mandate) was unconstitutional. In that case they lost the Chief Justice [John Roberts] and that’s why we have the ACA going into effect; albeit slowly and tripping along the way. But it is going into effect on January 1st.
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So they take the law, nitpick at one section of it, and to achieve what they hope is another ding into the creditability of the ACA. As I said earlier in a broader sense they will go after other laws they wish to be exempted from following.
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