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Apparently, Mitt Romney Was Right

by Elon James White|  June 30, 20145:41 pm| 10 Comments

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Remember when Mitt Romney explained to all of us that corporations are people, too? Apparently the Supreme Court is in agreement:

The Supreme Court endorsed corporate personhood — holding that business firms have rights to religious freedom under federal law. Not only do corporations have rights, their rights are stronger than yours….Protecting women’s rights, according to the Court, isn’t a good enough reason for the government to force a business corporation, at least a privately held one like chain craft store Hobby Lobby, to include birth control in its insurance contrary to the business owner’s wishes.

In a serious blow to women’s reproductive rights, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby that for-profit employers with religious objections do not have to provide contraception coverage under Obamacare. So not only are corporations people now, but they have religious preferences. We can’t wait until they have the right to marry.

Team Blackness discussed the many levels of this ruling with facts and much yelling, and sprinkled in a conversation on Iggy Azalea to really get our blood pressure boiling.

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  1. 1.

    chopper

    June 30, 2014 at 6:44 pm

    a post so nice you said it twice.

  2. 2.

    Roger Moore

    June 30, 2014 at 6:44 pm

    We can’t wait until they have the right to marry.

    They do. Not only can they marry, they can be as promiscuous in their marriages as they choose. It’s called “mergers and acquisitions.

  3. 3.

    KG

    June 30, 2014 at 6:50 pm

    @Roger Moore: dammit, you beat me to it

  4. 4.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    June 30, 2014 at 7:08 pm

    Seriously, Elon, you played “Fancy?”

  5. 5.

    scav

    June 30, 2014 at 7:10 pm

    But is this my twin with the goatee or not?

  6. 6.

    Violet

    June 30, 2014 at 7:15 pm

    A real live person should go to their local courthouse and request a marriage certificate for themselves and a corporation. Then if they can’t get one they can bring a court case.

    A corporation can try to adopt a child. If they aren’t allowed to, draft a case. Challenge it legally.

    A corporation can try to do mundane things like try to buy airline tickets and get a frequent flier number. That usually isn’t allowed (see the case of the cellist who had all his and his cello’s frequent flier miles taken away because he had a frequent flier account for his cello). Challenge it in court. If corporations are people, why can’t they have a frequent flier number?

    Just keep going down the list of things people do and are required to do–get vaccinated, have health insurance, have a driver’s license, register to vote, etc.–and try to do each one as a corporation. If they’re people, why can’t they do those things?

  7. 7.

    imonlylurking

    June 30, 2014 at 7:53 pm

    Will corporations go to heaven? Crap, does that mean I will have to WORK in the afterlife??

  8. 8.

    burnspbesq

    June 30, 2014 at 8:35 pm

    Setting aside for a moment the fact that your description of what the Court’s decision does and does not do is false and misleading in every material respect … nice rant.

  9. 9.

    WereBear

    June 30, 2014 at 8:44 pm

    @imonlylurking: They can, but I doubt many will.

  10. 10.

    rikyrah

    June 30, 2014 at 8:50 pm

    you got out my frustrations….

    not really, but I appreciated it anyway. Love the righteous anger.

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Apparently, Mitt Romney Was Right

by Elon James White|  June 30, 20145:41 pm| 2 Comments

This post is in: This Week In Blackness

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Remember when Mitt Romney explained to all of us that corporations are people, too? Apparently the Supreme Court is in agreement:

The Supreme Court endorsed corporate personhood — holding that business firms have rights to religious freedom under federal law. Not only do corporations have rights, their rights are stronger than yours….Protecting women’s rights, according to the Court, isn’t a good enough reason for the government to force a business corporation, at least a privately held one like chain craft store Hobby Lobby, to include birth control in its insurance contrary to the business owner’s wishes.

In a serious blow to women’s reproductive rights, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby that for-profit employers with religious objections do not have to provide contraception coverage under Obamacare. So not only are corporations people now, but they have religious preferences. We can’t wait until they have the right to marry.

Team Blackness discussed the many levels of this ruling with facts and much yelling, and sprinkled in a conversation on Iggy Azalea to really get our blood pressure boiling.

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    scav

    June 30, 2014 at 7:09 pm

    interesting universe we’ve got going here.

  2. 12.

    LT

    June 30, 2014 at 7:42 pm

    The optomist in me is inclined to think these reactionary swine are headed for an epic fall.

    Republican women share this in common with Log Cabin republicans– they each lack both brains and pride.

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