Our media is becoming known for sensationalizing article
headings for more readerships. One must read almost all the way to the bottom of the article to learn that the Supreme Court only denied the request for an injunction while legal battle on the merits plays out until the Court hears and rules on the
other 40 cases pending.
Remember this figure at the end of the year:
Hobby Lobby currently has 13,000 full-time employees across
more than 500 stores.
But, what do you want to bet that the
currently 13,000 full-time employees and their families will
either not be working or will only work part time in 2013 because of the Obamacare tax.
Supreme Court denies Hobby Lobby request for reprieve from health care mandate
Published December 26, 2012
FoxNews.com
The Supreme Court has denied a request by Hobby
Lobby to shield the company from the so-called contraceptive mandate while its
legal battle plays out, after a federal court last week similarly ruled against
the Christian-owned company.
The lower court had earlier refused to protect the
company from an Obamacare-tied requirement to provide contraceptive coverage,
and the fines that come with it for not complying.
CEO David Green, who had taken his case to the
appeals court after losing in a lower-court ruling, had argued that his family
would have to either "violate their faith by covering abortion-causing
drugs or be exposed to severe penalties."
The Supreme Court's latest ruling is not on the
underlying merits of the mandate itself -- it simply denies the company's
request for an injunction while legal battle on the merits plays out. There are
currently more than 40 cases pending against that rule.
The mandate requires businesses and
organizations, with some exceptions, to provide access to contraception
coverage -- Hobby Lobby was most concerned about coverage for the morning-after
pill, which some consider tantamount to an abortion-causing drug. Hobby Lobby
has refused to comply, while saying the fines could add up to $1.3 million a
day.
In its earlier ruling, the 10th Circuit Court of
Appeals said the company did not prove the rule would "substantially
burden" its religious freedom. Though the mandate has exemptions for
religious entities like churches, the lower court ruled that Hobby Lobby is not
a religious group.
The company, founded in 1972, has more than
13,000 full-time employees across more than 500 stores.
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