Oh god it's a thing. This ****ing country. Obesity rate is going to eventually hit 100%.
Bacon air freshener could kill their business plan?
Please tell me that's not a thing.
A primary failing of libertarianism is not realizing just how comically deviated from reality such statements are.
Right, that's why you don't make millions. You don't need millions!
There are millions of retail jobs. And millions more who have no job at all. If you fill every job opening in the country, you're still left will millions of unemployed people.
In what country? In the USA, people choose where they want to work, unless something changed. Don't want to work for Muslims? Don't take the job.
"I think I'll pick that job over there. "
Yeah, if only it were so easy.
Okay, so remind me of the last time that someone was forced to work someplace in the United States. Prison license plate stamping doesn't count.
Not the same as "choosing". Pretty much the only "choice" in the matter is to choose from what is offered or not work at all. Choosing from what is offered is not always optimal, good, or even mildly decent. It's like choosing Crap A or Crap B.
When people make this point they act as if jobs offers are the proverbial low-hanging fruit that is both plentiful and sweet, and it's not that way at all for the vast majority of people.
My post was simple. Nobody is forced to work for a Muslim-owned company because nobody is forced to work anywhere. That has nothing to do with unemployment or a weak job market.
If an employer believes in Sharia Law should they be allowed to impose Sharia law on its employees?
Well, that's easy to say, but when health care is so inexorably tied to employment (which, IMHO, it never should have been), then sometimes people are "forced," considering the alternative.
Well, that's easy to say, but when health care is so inexorably tied to employment (which, IMHO, it never should have been), then sometimes people are "forced," considering the alternative.
If the Supreme Court says that churches can ignore the law of the land and impose its own law on its employees, why not Sharia law?
If the Supreme Court says that churches can ignore the law of the land and impose its own law on its employees, why not Sharia law?
What law is Hobby Lobby forcing on its employees?
when you are denied the protection of a law by an employer, and the court says that's O.K., then you're operating under a different law ...
Because there still are limits. For instance, Hobby Lobby cannot make you participate in lent and not eat meat at work. The same would go for Sharia law, they cannot make you participate in religious activities.
Remember the decision is simply they won't pay for certain contraceptives, not that they don't allow you to use them.
I don't agree with the decision simply because Hobby Lobby is cherry picking which religious rules it will follow and ignores others. For example, they have no problem buying products from countries that have state sanctioned abortions such as China. They are hypocritical in what "rules" they will follow and which ones they won't.
The employees have the same access to those 4 forms of birth control as they did 2 weeks ago.
Obama should have known about both RFRA and the First Amendment when he & HHS added that provision to the law. It isn't HL's fault. It's Obama's & HHS' faults.
this may have opened the door to a big mess ... but, ironically, it may have helped Democrats for 2016, maybe even 2014 ... Hopefully Democrats will use it and use it effectively ...
I agree this helped the Democrats. But if people are voting exclusively on the issue of an employer reducing the cost of Plan-B from $50 down to a co-pay of $10 or $20, then we as a nation are in very, very serious trouble.
Did you ever read Scalia's opinion on a Peyote case up in Oregon or Washington where he took the opposite position? This isn't about the constitution Tres ... it's a Court with a very conservative agenda ....
not exclusively, but when it's part of a pattern ...