If (at least some) corporations are "people" with religious beliefs that have to be respected when it comes to having insurance that lets people do wicked and sinful things — why not actual people making the same claim? If a corporation has a pious interest in protecting their employees from even a whiff of the temptations of free contraception, why not a father doing the same to/for his daughters (two of whom are adults under his coverage)?
Lawmaker Cites Hobby Lobby In Case To Ban Birth Control For Daughters
A Missouri state lawmaker suing the federal government over Obamacare’s birth control mandate says that the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision strengthens his case.State Rep. Paul Wieland (R, pictured) believes that the state insurance plan his family is on violates his Catholic beliefs by covering birth control, and he wants an exemption so that his plan will not pay for birth control for his three daughters.
I hate to say it, but I think he has a case. As long as his daughters are on his plan, he may be entitled to exercise control over such aspects. Of course, he could simply refuse to allow them to purchase contraceptives. He may have a larger agenda here.
I'm waiting for someone to take up again the question of withholding from taxes because they are religiously offended by the defense budget, or welfare, or the space program, or some other governmental expenditure.