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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere is a very simple solution to the Hobby Lobby case
now note simple, doesn't necessarily mean easy, but we simply need to amend the RFRA. My suggestion would be to amend it so that it doesn't apply to employment, salary, and/ or benefits nor to discrimination on the basis of those classifications listed in the civil rights act and sexual orientation. But that necessitates winning the House back hence the not being easy part.
Anansi1171
(793 posts)Any ideas?
dsc
(52,157 posts)one increase our turn out and hope theirs is low. two, when practical try to reverse gerrymand. If you are a liberal, in a liberal district, but close to a close district, consider moving to the other district in october, vote in november, and return back to your district after the election. One only needs a utility bill to prove residence so move in with someone and get the water in your name.
FSogol
(45,481 posts)and vote, we'll win.
Anansi1171
(793 posts)Volaris
(10,270 posts)Yeah we WILL lose some first round no doubt.
But Republicans can be broke-ass and out of work, too...and EVENTUALLY, they will put 2&2 together
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Unlike Citizens United, for example, which can only be overturned by a constitutional amendment, Hobby Lobby can be overturned by Congress, if it wants to.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)but do you think the current Congress is likely to modify it?
BootinUp
(47,141 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)RFRA was passed in the House on a voice vote (no head count available that way) and by the Senate on a 97-3 vote, then signed into law by President Clinton. That was in the first year of his Presidency, when one could fairly say that he still had a glimmer of a honeymoon.
The Act has been modified only to say that it applies only to the Federal government, and not to the states. Today's case was the first significant test of the law as it applied to Federal law, and the law of unintended consequences may well have prevailed.
Yeah, winning that House back is only the biggest of the problems. We'll be lucky to hold the Senate by a couple of Blue Dogs after November. I look for the reich wing to be emboldened by today's decision.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)to the states.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)we already had the First Amendment that applied to the states, and the RFRA holds the Federal government to a much stricter standard. Today was really the first test of what that meant.
In any case, RFRA is not going to be amended, and it's clearly not going to be struck down by the SCOTUS.
MFrohike
(1,980 posts)Add the word natural before persons to 42 USC 2000bb(a). Then, add a sentence to cover organizations entirely or almost entirely religious in nature.
alarimer
(16,245 posts)Nobody's religion needs protecting. We need protection FROM everyone's religion.
Religion poisons everything.