SCOTUS has been handing down so many logic-, precedent- and decency-free decisions in the past few days it’s tough to keep up on their judicial idiocy.
However, their focus on “sincerely held religious beliefs” blinded them to (or gave them an excuse to ignore) one vitally important fact in the Hobby Lobby case. Health care benefits are not “given” by an employer out of the goodness of their hearts. They are an employee benefit that is earned. As such, the employer has no right to object to how that benefit is used once it is earned by the employee, any more than it can object to how the employee’s salary is used. Your employer can have a deeply held religious belief that is vehemently opposed to the drinking of coffee, but once you earn that paycheck, they can’t insist you not go to Starbucks and get a mocha latte with the money they paid you.
Or, given this ruling, can they?