Much ink will be spilled about the Supreme Court’s decision in the Hobby Lobby case. It affects many things: women’s freedom, the rights of religious conservatives, and, potentially, religious exemptions from a variety of civil rights laws like Obamacare.
The Court’s bitterly divided 5-4 opinion split on party lines: four conservatives siding with the conservatives, four liberals against, and Justice Kennedy concurring in the middle. But the net result is that closely-held corporations may withhold health insurance coverage that might be used for practices they find religiously objectionable. This is a significant boost for the “religious liberty” campaign.
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