The Big Picture Regarding the Hobby Lobby Decision

I think to a lot of people, the Supreme Court's decision in the Hobby Lobby case is largely about an overhaul of corporations' rights to control employees, basically a first step to more control over their lives.  Sure, it's about the birth control issue, but the "big picture" about the decision is this opening of the door to who knows what is next from big business?  The same people who are saying they don't want government to come between people and their doctor seem quite content to allow big business to jump right in.

The Supreme Court, right down party lines, just gave some corporations protection based on a clause in the Constitution meant to protect religious institutions.  So now corporations have even more advantages that real people do not.  Corporations have been given the rights of citizens and are "people" and also have protections of mitigation of risk by incorporating multiple investors together, along with all the financial breaks and tax breaks that come with it (lower taxes, offshoring to avoid taxes), adding to all that now is their protection as religious institutions.  In what way can you continue to call our system "free market capitalism" when every advantage goes to corporate "people" at the expense of actual people?  That's the big picture. 

Ironically and not surprisingly, if you go into any Hobby Lobby, you will find aisles and aisles and racks upon racks stocked full of merchandise for sale with the words "made in China" or "People's ROC."  The fact is, these bastions of Christianity have no problem whatsoever supporting a communist country that has a family planning policy allowing only 1 or 2 children, leading to forced abortions and female infanticide.  Now there's some good Christian values.  So maybe they're operating under the corporate "Christian" values here and not those of actual Christians.

I'm telling everyone now that if you're all excited because you perceive this to be a "smackdown" of Obama or that this decision means "you" won't have to pay for someone else's birth control, I believe this is a mistake on your part. Why? Because if I know President Obama, I believe he will eventually have the ACA cover what the church corporations like Snobby Lobby and the others refuse to cover.

I'm guessing he'll try to work with Congress to act to protect employees from the Supreme Court's decision here, but one way or another, stay tuned for the administrative fix to come from President Obama.  Somebody has to have the backs of the real people versus the corporations.