Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told an audience at Duke University that on gays rights, the court speaks of “equal dignity,” but for women, the court has yet to embrace “the ability of women to decide for themselves with what their destiny will be.” Is the Supreme Court Out of Order? In her blistering dissent on the recent Hobby Lobby decision — which allowed some employers to refuse to pay for insurance coverage for contraception on religious grounds — Ginsburg said the court “had ventured into a minefield.” “The decision could lead to job discrimination against women. What of the employer whose religious faith teaches that it’s sinful to employ a single woman without her father’s consent or a married woman without her husband’s consent?”
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 20:09:21 +0000
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