[The Mountaineer]

Originally Posted by MikeV

Good decision - If we had one more liberal judge the results would have been very different. It always alarms me that 9 supposedly intelligent judges seem to vote ideologically instead of legally. So our Supreme Court decisions are political and not based on the rule of the Constitution. Saddens me.

I agree that it is disturbing that Supreme Court judges vote their ideology, not the Constitution. I don't care whether it's 5-4 liberal or 5-4 conservative, the Supreme Court should not be deciding cases based on its ideology.

By the way, the Hobby Lobby ruling applies to 90% of the companies in
America, so it does not affect only a few companies. Since 85% of larger companies provided contraception coverage before Obamacare, I'm not sure how many people actually will be affected.

But it's fair to debate why corporations are not held to the same standards as individuals. We can't be anti-semetic, gay basher, racist or anti-Muslim without risking hate-crime laws coming down on us (as it should be), but a corporation can go against the law on religious grounds.

While we're at it, why should churches NOT be taxed? There's all that free land and buildings and even income that bring in no tax dollars, so the rest of us, even if we don't belong to a church, have to make up the difference. The original intent was to avoid having the government punish a specific religion through taxation, but that may not apply any more.