Drugs. They covered everything else. Great health benefits. They also paid more than twice the minimum wage to each of their employees. They found themselves painted into a corner by the government. The government forced the owners of hobby lobby to provide these drugs and exempted millions of americans from having to comply with this mandate that they considered so vital. The case became politicized. You may have heard about it. When the government went before the sprinkler, the spring court decided their case was weak. The Supreme Court, the Supreme Court decided their case was weak. We wib on that case. Corporations have the right to religious liberty. They thought women would die. None of that has happened. It was all politicized again. Since then come any Court Decision has benefited individuals in prison or who individuals who wanted to exercise their religious liberty. Does that answer your question . Greg probably has a slightly different version. The facts and the legal princi
Stake here than just details. Theres a conflict of vision behind many of these cases. There is a form of modern liberalism that says only the individual in the state israel. Israel. Protect individuals against oppression by other social institutions. Then there is the approach i would call principled pluralism. That says a community of communities that allows people to seek a vision of the good consistent with the common good is a positive thing. It has a positive value. I do think it really matters what perspective what political philosophical perspective you bring to these issues. I come from a more conservative side that says the most important institutions are not the state and more than the individual. They are the institutions in which the individual is shaped or morality is passed. Where culture the standards of a culture are created. The government has a positive role to nurture that pluralism. I do think that there are deep political, philosophical disagreements behind us that
Of paper and carry it from florida to california to get a letter from california to florida. Why can they figure out a way to get these contraceptives to women that does not involve nuns . They put a man on the moon but they are forcingothersto four orcing others. We are dealing there other people at stake. There are employees who will go without coverage if the nuns will not fill out the form or if anyone or if the university of notre dame will not fill out the form. The government can pay for anything but the would not say for instance that i have an objection to paying within the same as men. We would never say the government has money to make up the salary different so no big deal. They would say we are going to enforce the laws. We would not say i have a religious objection to paying minimum wage. No big deal. The government can make of the salary difference. We would reject that form of claim let alone saying i refuse to fill out a form. The question about the Conscientious Objec
Yeah, that, you know, the fact that they can live there and prosper and grow is as a result of having a healthy, a healthy watershed. Right. So this sort of picking apart of the protections is, you know, is troublesome in that, you know, we have tried in addition to the regulatory work to really look at kind of watersheds whether theyre sort of the big, iconic, you know, ecosystems that we think of, the everglades, chesapeake bay, the bay delta in california or, you know, the watershed that supplies fort collins and its neighboring cities that we have to take more holistic approach particularly in light of a changing climate. So youve served in two different decades, two different president s. Whats the thing that not, not how are the president s different, but just in terms of politics, whats the biggest change you see . Well, i actually think there are two, and one of them is very positive, and one of them, i think, is very negative. And the positive one is something that was alluded
On efferents to stop prostitution. Canadas Supreme Court voted to stop bans on brothels and street sollistation saying they compromise the safety of sex workers. The decision will take effect in a year. The big apple is getting in the holiday spirit with help from the empire state building. It is putting on its first christmas light show ever. The finale is set for christmas eve. Those are the headlines, consider this is up next. You can get the latest news online at aljazeera. Com. President obama took to the podium today to give the White House Press corps a postmore tell on the year. But what start ed as a look back quickly became a discussion of his biggest failures. Consider this identity is twir 14 look 2014 looking any better . Utah has allowed same sex marriage to gay and lesbian couples. Well talk to the clerk who started it all. And remember the comuns of the 60s and 70s . A surprising number of them are still around today. Hello im antonio mora. We begin with president obama