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Lv 5

My responsibilities to society do not change drastically based on my religion?

Why should the responsibilities of a company to it's employees change according to the beliefs of the owner?

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  • Paul
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    I'm still trying to figure out how the SCOTUS could possibly assert that a corporation can have "beliefs."

    And why they ignore the whole point of a corporation in the first place -- to legally *separate* the people who own the corporation from the corporation as an entity. So that if the corporation as an entity has debts, the owners aren't personally responsible; if the corporation as an entity has civil liability, the owners aren't personally responsible. Yet SCOTUS has decided that if the owners have a certain set of religious beliefs, they can impose them on the corporation. It's the silliest ruling they've ever given.

  • Well, in my opinion I don't think that a company SHOULD have any responsibility to their employees to provide medical coverage, particularly birth control or any other purely voluntary issue. But if we ARE going to create such a responsibility, then those responsibilities do not change based on the religion of the employer.

    They just don't, any more than a company should be able to refuse medical coverage for sickle cell disease, or Tay-Sachs.

  • 7 years ago

    You are comparing one person and society to a company and employees. That's not a very good comparison.

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