apartheid in south africa was justified on religious grounds. there are some religious beliefs that we no longer honor in our government, and the supreme court is simply wrong to honor gender bigotry that hobby l stores and conestoga wood are promoting, it s just wrong. it s bigotry to keep women away from basic health care. apartheid? really? here dana lash and former president of the national organization for women. it s been a long time. former president patricia harland. do you know how many forms of birth control hobby lobby offered as part of their plan? no, i don t know. i know that some of the most effective forms of birth control they have decided are against their religious brief. that s not true. i m wondering how a for
apartheid in south africa was justified on religious grounds. there are some religious beliefs that we no longer honor in our government, and the supreme court is simply wrong to honor gender bigotry that hobby lobby stores and conestoga wood are promoting, it s just wrong. it s bigotry to keep women away from basic health care. apartheid? really? here dana lash and former president of the national organization for women. it s been a long time. former president patricia harland. do you know how many forms of birth control hobby lobby offered as part of their plan? no, i don t know. i know that some of the most effective forms of birth control they have decided are against their religious brief. that s not true. i m wondering how a for
decision. sure. it was a big question here. the supreme court has never said before that a for-profit corporation as opposed to individuals can have religious views and can claim that abiding by a federal law would violate its religious believes. today for the first time, the supreme court said the answer to that question is yes. the court said that merely because business people want to form a corporation and get the legal protections that come with being a corporation, they don t re they don t shed all their religious believes as well. because it said the corporate form is intended to protect the people, the shareholders, the owners of the company and religious believes are part of that. so court says when you have a company like these three that were involved in the case, the hobby lobby, a chain of 500 craft stores nationwide. a bookstore owned by the same family in oklahoma. a chain of bookstores, and another company in pennsylvania called conestoga wood that was
this time the question is whether corporations have religious rights as well. at issue is whether the owners of hobby lobby stores can deny their employees specific parts of contraception coverage mandated by the affordable care act. the owners claim doing so would violate their right of religious freedom. they aren t objecting to all contraception coverage, just a handful that include iuds, the morning after pill, drugs and devices that some on the right argue actually cause abortions. now, the case also includes a related appeal from conestoga wood, a pennsylvania cabinet maker, that has the identical objection. the government insists that corporations are set up to be legally separate from the people that run them. the contraception man date is under fire all over the country. at least 100 cases have been filed in two dozen states, all focusing on simply this part of the mandate. keep in mind the obama administration has already had to backtrack and change the man
don t like blood transfusions or boss deciding, i don t like the lgbt community, i m going to withhold health care from them. it is very troubling because it is a slippery slope in that way. it is really important to remember. the court go ahead. apartheid in south africa was justified on religious grounds. southern baptist convention justified slavery and later jim crow and segregation on religious grounds. there are some religious beliefs that we no long honor in our government and the supreme court is wrong to honor gender bigotry that hobby lobby stores and conestoga wood are promoting. it s bigotry to keep women from having basic health care. you know, obviously the court deciding that religious freedom restoration act applies to private commercial enterprises, i would imagine there would be a flood of objections and lawsuits coming forward. what about us, you know, every