Americans need to know today is the day Religious freedom died. We now have to follow our employer's religious beliefs. The ramifications of this decision will be felt for a very long time, and I would argue it has effectively destroyed the First Amendment. The recklessness, and partisanship of the SCOTUS is something that should never be seen in a nation such as ours.
Thomas Jefferson stated that "no person shall be compelled to join a church" Yet today the SCOTUS is forcing us all to join the Church of Hobby Lobby. It is CLEAR in our history that allowing others to push their religious beliefs on their constituents, neighbors, or employees and make them follow it is unconstitutional. That is exactly what SCOTUS did today. Hobby Lobby can practice their beliefs, but they can't push it on their employees. If they don't like this very important part of our Constitution then they can indeed leave the public business sector.
This was solidified in United States VS Lee, where the SCOTUS declared that employers cannot push their religion on their employees. I think we can all agree we naturally know this--as a tenet of the First Amendment.
This decision is clearly a result of religious zealots sitting on the court who have thrown out their oath to follow the law in favor of preserving their own religious beliefs. The dangers of allowing people like this on the highest court of our nation is a destruction of the very foundation of our nation. A foundation that Thomas Jefferson was very clear on when he said:
"The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and … if any act shall be … passed to repeal [an act granting those rights] or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right."
Today the SCOTUS did just that and they have in fact destroyed freedom of religion--they don't have the right or the power to do that.