The basic decision is completely incoherent and contradictory.<\/p>\n
The gist of the decision is that private corporations can ignore basic regulations if they are “sincerely held beliefs,” whatever the f%$# means, which ignores decades of jurisprudence which slapped down various flavors of bigots, sexists, and nut-jobs who have attempted to use religion to avoid following civil law.<\/p>\n
They say that this is so because to quote Mitt Rmoney, “corporations are people too.”<\/p>\n
They say that it only applies to “closely held” corporations, (fewer than 5 people holding over half of the equity in the firm) but provide no real explanation for why<\/b> it should so be limited, and they do not explain why it does not, for example, apply to multibillion dollar corporations like Koch industries.\u2020<\/sup><\/p>\n Furthermore, they say that it applies only<\/b> to contraception, and not, for example, to the JW’s objection to blood transfusion or vaccination, but again, they simply say this, and provide no real justification<\/a>:<\/p>\n This decision concerns only the contraceptive mandate andshould not be understood to hold that all insurance-coverage mandates, e.g., for vaccinations or blood transfusions, must necessarily fall if they conflict with an employer\u2019s religious beliefs. Nor does it provide a shield for employers who might cloak illegal discrimination as a religious practice.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Basically, it only applies to contraception, because we care about what Catholics and right wing Evangelicals think, but not (Mercy!) Jehovah’s Witnesses.<\/p>\n