Q:: How optimistic are you that the Administration will prevail in the Hobby Lobby case?
I'm guardedly optimistic about it. I say that because, there is a point where if you allow (because of this federal statute) every company to be exempt from anything they don't like, all of the sudden it sounds like you created this gigantic loophole in this law; and, perhaps every other law. Where people just do whatever they want, follow whatever laws they want. That's not called governance anymore, that's called anarchy. And I don't think members of the SCOTUS in general are willing to go that far.
I don't know how you'd draw the line, as we discussed earlier, if it's ok for a Catholic or Mennonite employer to do this. Why not a Scientologist? Why not a Jehovah's Witness? Why not a Christian Scientist person who doesn't want to cover any kind of medical,,, This is just no place to draw the line once you go off this cliff of saying companies have a conscience and companies can do anything they want in regards to the laws they don't happen to like.
So it's a dangerous road, I think there are probably people even in the middle (Justice Stephen G. Breyer & Justice Anthony M. Kennedy) who are not going to want to go down a road that seems to have no end but a drop-off a cliff.
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