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Robert Reich: Freedom, power, and the conservative mind
On Monday the Supreme Court struck down a key part of the Affordable Care Act, ruling that privately-owned corporations don’t have to offer their employees contraceptive coverage that conflicts with the corporate owners’ religious beliefs.
The owners of Hobby Lobby, the plaintiffs in the case, were always free to practice their religion. The court bestowed religious freedom on their corporation as well – a leap of logic as absurd as giving corporations freedom of speech. Corporations aren’t people.
The deeper problem is the court’s obliviousness to the growing imbalance of economic power between corporations and real people. By giving companies the right not offer employees contraceptive services otherwise mandated by law, the court ignored the rights of employees to receive those services.
MORE HERE: http://wonkynewsnerd.com/robert-reich-freedom-power-and-the-conservative-mind/
The owners of Hobby Lobby, the plaintiffs in the case, were always free to practice their religion. The court bestowed religious freedom on their corporation as well – a leap of logic as absurd as giving corporations freedom of speech. Corporations aren’t people.
The deeper problem is the court’s obliviousness to the growing imbalance of economic power between corporations and real people. By giving companies the right not offer employees contraceptive services otherwise mandated by law, the court ignored the rights of employees to receive those services.
MORE HERE: http://wonkynewsnerd.com/robert-reich-freedom-power-and-the-conservative-mind/
