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In reply to the discussion: For all of you who seem to think that the Hobby Lobby decision is just "hair on fire" [View all]DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)Anyone who thinks there there are not a thousand legal departments trying to figure out how to turn this into a feast of carnage is naive. We go by precedent, and the name of the legal game is to take a slice of precedent and make it into a loaf of power.
Let's avoid even the idea that some places will suddenly use religion to cut benefits. The damage is that now, religion has a FULL PLACE in legal decisions, which means it can and will use it's leverage to get it's way. The court has ruled that restricting the ability to OPPRESS is the same as OPRESSING, which is the same as saying that obstructing the fox from his rights to kill every chicken in the henhouse would be to obstruct his religion.
Side Note:I can already see the Mormons using this to say "we do not condone smoking, drinking or caffiene use, so we will cut off all people who use those."