{"id":45119,"date":"2014-09-11T05:57:10","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T11:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/11\/the-next-hobby-lobby-step-gets-taken.html"},"modified":"2014-09-15T11:16:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T17:16:12","slug":"the-next-hobby-lobby-step-gets-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/11\/the-next-hobby-lobby-step-gets-taken.html","title":{"rendered":"The next Hobby Lobby step gets taken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If (at least some) corporations are &quot;people&quot; with religious beliefs that have to be respected when it comes to having insurance that lets people do wicked and sinful things &#8212; 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)?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/missouri-lawmaker-lawsuit-hobby-lobby-daughters'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/bfwe7jOg3fmGJIgX4gk1I1fzBGyHAm1hcXl5_mpbVcjwmy0usstlvg2NrwWB6yOQDA1cE8aNB31p1966NDCLqNMM4G7HyPq5ZumPLXOc0eAXqRWKhjURJPavBt77g4V09uP1N_qPNcgKA_0hmbFkWC7klNmMtJiEE3SMrXYMB0NG=w506-h303' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/missouri-lawmaker-lawsuit-hobby-lobby-daughters'>Lawmaker Cites Hobby Lobby In Case To Ban Birth Control For Daughters<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nA Missouri state lawmaker suing the federal government over Obamacare&#8217;s birth control mandate says that the Supreme Court&#8217;s Hobby Lobby decision strengthens his case.<\/p>\n<p>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.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Gy87hQ91xTB'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If (at least some) corporations are &quot;people&quot; with religious beliefs that have to be respected when it comes to having insurance that lets people do wicked and sinful things &#8212; 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/11\/the-next-hobby-lobby-step-gets-taken.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The next Hobby Lobby step gets taken&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,109,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-church-state","category-health-care"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41583,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/02\/some-more-points-on-the-hobby-lobby-thang.html","url_meta":{"origin":45119,"position":0},"title":"Some more points on the Hobby Lobby thang","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 2-Apr-14 11:20am","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, I know, the arguments have already been made before SCOTUS, but I thought this article had some interesting points to make:1. Insurance company pools are fungible. If Hobby Lobby is offering policies through insurance company X, and insurance company X is paying for a different company's\u00a0employees contraception, that money\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":31424,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/19\/hobby-lobby-is-not-a-church.html","url_meta":{"origin":45119,"position":1},"title":"Hobby Lobby is not a church","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 19-Nov-12 9:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Despite the worshipful home crafty types that visit there. \u00a0Per the ruling:\u201cHowever, Hobby Lobby and Mardel [its partner company] are not religious organizations.\u00a0Plaintiffs have not cited, and the court has not found, any case concluding that secular, for-profit corporations such as Hobby Lobby and Mardel have a constitutional right to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133805,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/06\/hobby-lobby-to-pay-3m-fine-for-illegal-antiquity-imports.html","url_meta":{"origin":45119,"position":2},"title":"Hobby Lobby to pay $3M fine for illegal antiquity imports","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-Jul-17 8:09am","format":false,"excerpt":"The company spokesfolk did a little herp-derp, how could we possibly know that the antiquities field is full of dodgy people who steal things from archaeological sites, that we should actual verify the story they told us, and that wiring our money to multiple accounts and receiving the goods in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":43315,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/01\/just-in-case-you-thought-hobby-lobby-was-a-narrowly-defined-ruling.html","url_meta":{"origin":45119,"position":3},"title":"Just in case you thought Hobby Lobby was a narrowly defined ruling&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-Jul-14 5:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Just in case you thought Hobby Lobby was a narrowly defined ruling...There are plenty of folk who think otherwise, and are leaping on the ruling as a basis for companies being able to discriminate against gays in hiring, firing, or as customers. After all, if it's all about the sincerely-held\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":45303,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/17\/and-the-hobby-lobby-decision-ripples-along.html","url_meta":{"origin":45119,"position":4},"title":"And the Hobby Lobby decision ripples along","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 17-Sep-14 6:55am","format":false,"excerpt":"And a federal judge extends the \"religious faith trumps everything else\" implications of the decision in yet another direction. Probably not egregious enough to nudge the SCOTUS justices from Hobby Lobby toward a reconsideration ... yet ... but I strongly suspect over time these will build up until Scalia encounters\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":39003,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/03\/chistian-crafts.html","url_meta":{"origin":45119,"position":5},"title":"Christian Crafts","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 3-Oct-13 3:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It is, of course, absolutely Hobby Lobby's legal prerogative to stock or not stock whatever they want. \u00a0And it is, of course, absolutely the prerogative of potential customers to take offense (or not) at what those stocking decisions are, and to act accordingly.I will note the irony that Hobby Lobby\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45232,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45119\/revisions\/45232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}