HL & BC

Have you heard the news about Hobby Lobby trying to get around the free-birth-control through insurance part of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare)?  If not, here are a couple links:

CNN

NY Times


If you would rather not read the article, basically Hobby Lobby is claiming that providing certain birth control free of charge to their employees (through the company's insurance, per the ACA) violates their religious beliefs.

All I have to say is that companies cannot have religious beliefs! 

I know the issue of birth control is personal and some religious sects have very specific beliefs about it, but that is not what I am having the problem with. 

I have a problem with the argument that a company, a corporation with roughly 500 stores, can have beliefs or feelings or opinions of any sort.  A corporation is a profit machine - it is designed to be independent of its owners and its own entity, but that does not mean it acts as a person.  When someone commits insider trading or embezzlement, they don't say "Oh, the company was in on it. Just look on the hard drive - it proves the company knew what I was doing and didn't stop me." NO!!  The person is held accountable.

I digress....    I think if Hobby Lobby doesn't want to outright pay for birth control, they should cancel whatever coverage they have now and give all of their employees an HSA (or the like) or don't offer insurance at all and pay the penalty.

I think their argument is ridiculous (and same goes for any other company making the same claim) and I am hoping the Supreme Court agrees.