Thursday, June 19, 2014

Great Article on Becket Fund | National Catholic Reporter

Great Article on Becket Fund | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: Smith is likely to be controlling law, dooming the Hobby Lobby Case (not to mention that there is no change, save copayments, from the prior status quo on birth control in the EEOC decision).  The Hobby Lobby is not so much subsidizing birth control as accepting a susidy to provide it - making it an agent of the state.  Finding for Hobby Lobby essentially overturns Griswold v. Connecticut, allowing employer interference with the privacy rights thus granted. I hope someone made that argument.  Personal privacy trumps employee religious rights all the time (Smith again).  Still, the Becket Fund is not as obnoxious as others.  Thank Heaven their lawyer was not the American Center for Law and Justice.  They are the kind of Catholic Dominionists that you can call scary.  Of course, because they are so out there (like those true believers representing the Institute for Marriage) that the case likely would have died by now.

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