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In reply to the discussion: For all of you who seem to think that the Hobby Lobby decision is just "hair on fire" [View all]ewagner
(18,964 posts)you may be right....
But
being the cynical person I am, I'll have to make this point:
You mention that "hey seem to have wanted to give Hobby Lobby the result they wanted, without setting too much of a precedent for future cases involving the "religious rights" of corporations. "
This implies that the five judges of the majority (and conservative block) of the court actually CARE about setting a precedent for future cases...I don't know if they CARE about the law, precedent, or for that matter the future of the country...they care only about protecting the conservative/republican/libertarian/tea-party campaign donations for the next election....they cannot see beyond that. The confusion was (in my opinion) deliberate. Deliberately setting the stage for future law suits that they can use this ruling as a springboard to jump off of to pander to the christian(ist) right wing in the future.
but you could be right....but only if they were trying to protect their reputations in the eyes of future justices.