And Now Corporations Are Religions?

Hobby Lobby is an arts and crafts chain privately owned by billionaire evangelist activist David Green.  Green and his stores are such out-of-touch bubble-dwellers that they only recently, and only after protest and pressure, began to stock Hanukkah items.

Green has a problem with Obamacare's requirement that contraception be included in employer-group health insurance plans.  Says it violates his personal religious beliefs.  He sued to have his corporation exempted, just like non-profit churches, from that rule.  Incredibly, a federal circuit court ruled in his favor.  The government appealed to the Supreme Court, which agreed to hear Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby next year.

The circuit court cited the wrong-headed Citizens United v. FEC "corporations are people" decision in its ruling.  Now the Roberts court will decide if corporations are religions as well as people.

Whatever the Supremes decide, the real answer is obviously NO, for-profit corporations are not religions and the owner's personal feelings are beside the point.  How about a business owner who's a strict Christian Scientist?  All your physical problems are from lack of sufficient Christian faith, and medical treatment is a crock.  Does such an idiot have a Constitutional right to deny his/her employees not only contraception but all forms of medical attention?  It's silly, and David Green is an ass.

So let's agree -- fuck the Hobby Lobby!  Take your artsy-craftsy business elsewhere.  Let them be supported only by snake-handling wackos.  If you can't find a more respectable place to buy your scrap-booking, knitting and calligraphy supplies, you're just not trying.