You [I mean Christians, not just you personally] are rejoicing, because your religious beliefs have been made more powerful - but how will you feel when the religion in question isn't yours?
You [I mean Christians, not just you personally] are rejoicing, because your religious beliefs have been made more powerful - but how will you feel when the religion in question isn't yours?
You've completely, utterly and totally missed what has happened. You think some particular religion has been singled out by the Supreme Court for favoritism. A, the ruling doesn't make Christian beliefs "more powerful." And B, and the most incredibly important, the ruling doesn't "support" a religious belief at all - the ruling prevents a law that infringes upon the free exercise of religion. Period.It doesn't matter, because if one religion's beliefs are supported, they all must be - and that's a recipe for disaster. Exactly what the Founding Fathers hoped to prevent.
Hobby Lobby opposes the law forcing them to have to pay for, and thus make available free of charge to their employees, contraceptives and abortifacients, because doing so is against their religious beliefs. A law forcing them to do so would be a law forcing them to violate their own religious beliefs. That's a far cry from them wanting to prohibit their employees from using contraceptives and abortifacients. A ruling allowing them to prohibit their employees from using them would be a ruling that made their beliefs more powerful, and would certainly be a ruling that supported a specific religion. But that's not what happened.
Until September 2012, when Obamacare forced them to change their health insurance plan, Plan B and Ella emergency contraceptives were covered in Hobby Lobby's health insurance plans. The difference was, the employees were paying for it, not Hobby Lobby. Hobby Lobby wasn't refusing to allow it to be covered by insurance, and they weren't forcing their religious beliefs onto employees by prohibiting they be able to use that insurance coverage. Hobby Lobby simply wouldn't pay for it.
And yes, just like the Founding Fathers wanted, this ruling applies to all religions. Any closely held private corporation, be it Christian, Muslim or whatever, can refuse to provide contraceptives and abortifacients to their employees if providing it violates their religion. What's the big deal? It's straightforward and clearly understandable - neither Congress nor any other legislative body can create a law which forces an individual or a private company to violate their own religious beliefs.