Hobby lobby and gay rights

Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., the conservative five-justice majority found that closely held corporations do not have to comply with the Affordable Care Act's requirement that. In an unprecedented decision this week, the Supreme Court ruled that employers can use their religious beliefs to deny their employees access to benefits that they are guaranteed by law to receive. Hobby Lobby Case Background The two for-profit companies who brought this case to the Supreme Court are the arts-and-crafts chain store Hobby Lobby based in Oklahoma, and a custom wood cabinet company in Pennsylvania called Conestoga Wood Specialties. Hobby Lobby first challenged the federal contraception rule, arguing that covering certain forms of birth control including emergency contraception and IUDs violated their religious beliefs.

In the Hobby Lobby decision handed down last month, the Supreme Court was asked to strike a balance between women’s rights and religious freedom. But the major conflict that has erupted. However, the local Gay and Lesbian Alliance GALA is expressing concern about the store opening a location in San Luis Obispo, and the group is asking community members to shop somewhere else. Ruggles says Hobby Lobby has a history of taking out ads in newspapers and petitioning local, state and federal representatives to push their political views. They have a very narrow view of how the country should be run," said Ruggles.

On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Sean F. Cox found that Hobby Lobby ’s broad guarantee of “religious freedom” to businesses exempts religious employers from the federal ban on workplace sex. Danielle Doza. The lower court decisions in favor of the employers will stand. Some of these employers are seeking to deny coverage for all contraceptives and even counseling and education related to contraception.

And the day after Hobby Lobby, a group of religious leaders petitioned President Obama to include a broad exemption in the executive order he has announced to prohibit discrimination against LGBT workers by federal contractors. Our privacy statement is changing. Changes will be in effect July 31, Right now we are in a storm of contested rights, as businesses and institutions across the country ask for express legal permission to use religion to discriminate based on sexual orientation, sex, and gender identity.