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“This decision plays into the false and insidious narrative that religious liberty is a battle between religious people and the so-called godless,” said Stosh Cotler, CEO of Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice. “The Jewish community—and the other faith groups who signed onto the amicus brief—are evidence that that narrative is in fact false. What the Roberts court has left us with is a system in which a corporation can claim a religious belief that has power and rights beyond an individual’s. It’s a dangerous precedent, especially for America’s religious minorities and people of no religious tradition.”
The brief cited America’s religious diversity as one of many reasons that private for-profit employers should not have the right to impose their religious convictions on their staff. Less than half (48%) of Americans identify as Protestant, and less than a quarter (22%) identify as Catholic; six percent identify as Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, or another faith, and nearly one in five (19.6%) do not affiliate with any religion. Workplaces are particularly diverse places, with approximately half of American workers having contact with people from different beliefs and identities at the workplace.
At a time when women make up more than half of the workforce, the ruling also further denies women equal rights in the workplace. “By setting women’s reproductive health care apart from all other forms of health care the Roberts’ Court has legally enshrined a new kind of gender-based inequality where only women are specifically subject to interference from their employer when it comes to personal medical choices,” continued Cotler. “We hope that the President will explore ways to ensure that women who will otherwise be denied reproductive health care by their employers are not left without coverage.”
Bend the Arc: SCOTUS Hobby Lobby Decision Chips Away at Women’s Rights, Undermines Religious Liberty | Bend the Arc
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