Watch: Jon Stewart Explains The Hobby Lobby Supreme Court Case
Jon Stewart took a sarcastic, mocking look at this week’s Supreme Court case that will decide the future of Obamacare. Hobby Lobby, a privately-owned craft super-store chain that claims to be founded on Christian biblical principles is suing the U.S. government over the Obamacare mandate of access to free contraception. Hobby Lobby’s owners claim that mandate violates their company’s religious beliefs.
Stewart pokes holes in the argument, but it cannot be overstated: contraception is not abortion, and the entire basis of the Hobby Lobby claim is wrong and ignorant.
One point Stewart touches on but doesn’t go far enough with is this: should Hobby Lobby win, it will give corporations the legal right to discriminate against the LGBT community, based on the corporation’s religious beliefs, since the Supreme Court decided (to paraphrase Mitt Romney,) corporations are people.
Stewart sums up the historic case:Â “So let me get this straight, corporations aren’t just people, they’re ill-informed people, whose factually incorrect beliefs must be upheld because they sincerely believe them.”
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