"Corporations are people, my friend!" said Romney in his most famous line from the 2012 campaign. Now, the Supreme Court, in the Hobby Lobby decision, is doing its best to defend and back up its original mistake of making corporations people in Citizens United by acting from that basic premise as if it were holy writ. And in this manner, mistakes beget more mistakes - of course. Again, corporate rights are winning out over individual rights. And this religious freedom of the corporation is indeed a slippery slope, as Ed pointed out, because no matter how hard the SCOTUS tries to limit this decision to contraception only, etc... the limitations of this decision are essentially artificial and arbitrary, and it is guaranteed that the corporate hordes outside the castle walls will surely use this precedent as a battering ram. Nevertheless, in spite of all this propensity for error and lurching from one error to the next, we might just learn something from this horrendous decision, as one of the panel members said, it might propel the US healthcare system in the direction of single payer. That is probably the best thing that could come out of this decision.
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