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« on: July 08, 2014, 07:22:53 AM »

If you've actually read the opinion, nothing is being forced upon the employees as they still get their emergency contraceptive and IUD coverage, just via the same mechanism that Obama already set up to handle non-profit corporations with religious concerns that those particular methods might actually be abortive in their manner of action.  (Indeed, Hobby Lobby wasn't seeking exemption from covering all forms of contraception as some religious groups were, but four specific ones over which the question of how they work is disputed.  AFAIK, the family that owns Hobby Lobby has no problems with contraceptive methods that prevent ovulation.)

And then on Thursday, SCOTUS granted Wheaton College an injunction to allow it to not comply with the process you outline above.
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« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2014, 06:32:01 AM »

So Wheaton says they object to filing form 700 because it makes them complicit. The court agrees, and says that their notification to HHS, even without form 700, is enough to trigger the workaround that would get their employees third-party contraception coverage. So...need I state the obvious? If filling out the form to notify the government of the objection is claimed to be burdensome to Wheaton's religious exercise, it's not clear to me why any notification to HHS would not be burdensome, since it triggers the same activity to which Wheaton objects.
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« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2014, 07:57:10 AM »

Shouldn't Roberts have agreed that it survives as a tax? Roberts isn't even being consistent with himself.
This case had nothing to do with the individual mandate and whether or not it's a tax is irrelevant to the Free Exercise Clause.

This case also didn't have to do with the Free Exercise Clause. It was a statutory case based on RFRA.
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