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Related: About this forumMacomb company (Weingartz) continues Hobby Lobby fight against contraception
Macomb company continues Hobby Lobby fight against contraceptionBy Chad Selweski
The Macomb Daily (MI)
07/11/14
In the wake of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in the so-called Hobby Lobby case, Macomb County-based Weingartz Supply Company may be poised to push the envelope a bit further in allowing businesses the freedom to ban all forms of contraception from their employee health care benefits.
The Hobby Lobby ruling issued by the high court said that family businesses with devout religious beliefs did not have to meet the Obama administrations mandate that all employer-provided health care must include a full range of birth control coverage.
But Weingartz, which sells and repairs products such as lawn mowers and snow blowers at five southeast Michigan locations, is still in the game, from a legal standpoint. The company, based in Utica and with stores in Ann Arbor, Cedar Springs, Clarkston and Farmington Hills as well, was the second in the nation to secure a federal injunction against the Obamacare contraception mandate in October 2012.
Company president Dan Weingartz is a member of an Ann Arbor-based nonprofit, Legatus, which has ties to Tom Monaghan and consists of more than 4,000 devout Catholic business owners and executives across the nation. Legatus, the Latin word for ambassador, seeks to spread the tenets of the Catholic faith....
MORE at http://www.macombdaily.com/government-and-politics/20140711/macomb-company-continues-hobby-lobby-fight-against-contraception
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Macomb company (Weingartz) continues Hobby Lobby fight against contraception (Original Post)
theHandpuppet
Jul 2014
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theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)1. Let's take a closer look at "Legatus", shall we?
http://www.thomasmore.org/press-releases/legatus-largest-catholic-business-organization-obtains-preliminary-injunction/
http://www.legatus.org/about
https://www.facebook.com/legatusmagazine
I still haven't been able to find a list of the companies who are part of Legatus but if anyone can locate one, please post. I'd like to know who's not interested in my business anymore.
http://www.legatus.org/about
https://www.facebook.com/legatusmagazine
I still haven't been able to find a list of the companies who are part of Legatus but if anyone can locate one, please post. I'd like to know who's not interested in my business anymore.
navarth
(5,927 posts)2. and there's Monaghan again
fucking weirdo. I hate that guy in multiple ways.
I almost got my lawnmower fixed at weingartz last summer. It will never happen for sure now that I know this.
Goddam it Michigan is a great place, I wish we could rid ourselves of these clowns. Since the jobs got moved out and the unions broken it's getting worse.
And this fucking supreme court.......aaargh.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)3. It's body blow after body blow
I don't know if there are any easy answers for Michigan, but the first step would be to get rid of all the Tea Party Militiagans who've taken over your government.
cynzke
(1,254 posts)4. LMAO at all those right wing idiots......
arguing last week that the SC ruling was limited. What a crock!