Is the Supreme Court gearing up to try and claim divine authority and declare that Corporations have Souls?
Last time we had to set about to a fight over who had souls... was when Columbus went and asked the Pope about my ancestors... It was absurd to think we didn't, but Conquistadors wanted to push that angle so they could clear us out.
Its just as absurd to think a contractual construction meant to move money from poor people over to rich people has a soul... let alone is a person.
Mind you the SCOTUS has never even ruled that Corporations are people. That comes from the dicta or a supporting opinion to a case. But they have acted since as if it was a part of the ruling.
Will we see the same result after Hobby Lobby?
Will some crazy right winger who's name might just begin with 'Sc' and end in 'a' opine about the religious beliefs of corporations... only to cite himself down the road in some essay about the 'Soul' of Capitalism and Corporations and their divine right to express their faith... or some other crazy illogic.
Nothing is too absurd for a body that has reached the conclusion that an economic contract is a person with all rights thereof...
And now the case is more or less before them.
But the Hobby Lobby case that’s going in front of the Supreme Court
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going to be argued on the grounds that a business can have a “religion”—which can contain any beliefs they want—and that they have wide berth to use that “religion” to discriminate against their employees.
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from rawstory )
Hobby Lobby has a full on propaganda page to promote the idea that this is about the family's religious freedom... But its not. It empowers a corporate entity to make religious decisions over the minions under it. It gives religious authority to the real power in modern society: the corporation.
It is a de-facto reinstatement of theocracy.
Which goes right back to the Popes and my ancestors. A time when Popes made laws that all of the western world had to follow, and all they conquered were put to the grindstone under.
It took centuries to undo that. Thomas Jefferson, scum that he may have been on the issue of rights of others; personally took it upon himself to end theocracy.
And now they're set to try and put it back, in the one place they know they can control the masses: through the employer.
Giving the corporations legal souls will be an end to religious freedom for those of us who actually have souls...
Jah be sitting up there with a copy of the Bible and thinking... "wait, I don't see that anywhere in here..."