What should I do?
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So, one of my little side-businesses, I have an LLC -- Limited Liability Corporation. Well, last Sunday, unbeknownst to me, my LLC went to church, found Jesus, got baptized, and developed a strict moral conscience. Now my LLC is nagging on me not to smoke cigars.
What shall I do?
What shall I do?
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EDIT: Sorry. Got a call in the middle of posting this. Didn't see the other posts. Disregard.
Oh! I didn't get that either. But I'm glad you brought it up, since I didn't want to be the first.
Honestly, unlike many of my fellow tree-huggers, I'm not all that worked up by the Holly Lobby decision. Maybe because the decision was only focused on contraceptives. If your family owned employer is no longer obligated to pay for 'em, go to the drugstore and buy yourself some Trojans or morning after pills and deduct them as out of pocket healthcare expenses. The Supremes also provided a loophole for you and me taxpayers to pay for Holly's employees' birth control pills, whether we want to or not.
I'd be a lot more alarmed if the Supremes allowed the Hollies to deny healthcare coverage to gay couples, or if a family company owned by Christian Scientists refused to provide healthcare coverage because they don't believe in medicine. Or it the Hollies could opt-out of providing other kinds of heathcare coverage--for example, refusing to pay for hospital-based circumcisions of babies because they were a Jewish/Muslim thing. Or refusing to pay for alcohol treatment treatment programs because drinking is a sin.
But it doesn't appear in the decision that the Supremes broadened the definition of the Religious Freedom and Restoration Act to go beyond contraceptives. Doesn't mean they won't the next time.
You're right. Holly Lobby was only objecting to four kinds of abortificants, not all kinds of contraceptives. The case just opens the door to future cases where companies may not want to cover vaccinations or cancer treatment on religious grounds. I can only hope that the Court won't extend the precedent of Holly Lobby to treatments that save lives. We shall see.
But what I really wanted to know is what you think of the folks on the left who are protesting the decision with an ridiculous amount of spin by saying or implying that ALL forms of birth control were affected? Hillary Clinton actually said that Hobby Lobby owners don't think that their employees should be using contraception. You think she doesn't know what she's talking about or is it pure spin?
It's nuts.
It's nuts.
What is the LLC's issue? Is it insurance cost, image, etc.?
I would just not smoke around those associated with it or while on the job. What you do in the privacy of your own home is nobody's business as long as it is not illegal.