Are Corporations Now Hulking Behemoth Pets of the Rich, After Sibelius vs Hobby Lobby Decision?

A little history for you. I promise- it will be brief.

Citizens United vs Federal Election Commission

In 2010, “The United States Supreme Court held that the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting political independent expenditures by corporations, associations, or labor unions. This followed a line of decisions starting with Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976) interpreting freedom of speech to include spending money. The case has remained intensely controversial for increasing the influence in elections that money can have, in contrast to most other developed countries where limits are imposed on all election spending.” -Wikipedia

Meaning: First- money talks, literally. Spent money is the same thing as the spoken word. Second, that corporations are people.

Scared yet? No?

Fast forward to Monday, June 30, 2014. The Supreme Court rules on Sebelius vs Hobby Lobby. The case is built around the owners of Hobby Lobby wishing to counter the Obamacare literature stating that they are required to give their employees insurance with contraceptive protection up to and including the “morning after” pill. The Supreme Court rules in Hobby Lobby’s favor, stating that “closely-held corporations” cannot be forced to pay for their employees’ birth control.

As written by Justice Samuel Alito, and reported by Mother Jones online: "[W]e must decide whether the challenged…regulations substantially burden the exercise of religion, and we hold that they do. The owners of the businesses have religious objections to abortion, and according to their religious beliefs the four contraceptive methods at issue are abortifacients."

So. Corporations now hold religious rights, too? I mean, granted, we told them they are people right? One question, if they are people, why can’t a corporation vote yet? Maybe that’s next on the agenda.

I have nothing personal against Hobby Lobby not giving out abortionist contraceptives to their female employees. Not outright. Not because they are a corporation and certainly not because the owners (can a corporation have owners, if they are people? Slavery?) are Christian in their beliefs. I have doubts that Hobby Lobby has any serious intent to harm society with the new decision. Not if they are truly Christian…

Author's Edit: Having discovered Hobby Lobby holds investments including a pharmaceutical company who MAKES ABORTIONIST "MORNING AFTER" PILLS, I am inclined to suggest that yes, even Hobby Lobby is just another corporation who will do whatever it wants, regardless of whom it hurts. I also want to say that, given the judgement affected only female employees, that the Supreme Court's decision is unconstitutional as it only affects a portion of the population, not the population as a whole. Morality aside (I don't agree with abortion), the law is supposed to be equal to all peoples, non-discriminatory based on SEX, RELIGION, SEXUAL PREFERENCE, ETHNICITY, ETC. Hobby Lobby's claim being religion based is a sham. 

"Turns out that Hobby Lobby’s 401(k) employee retirement plan, according to documents filed with the Labor Department and written about by Mother Jones, is heavily invested in the very pharmaceutical companies that manufacture the products the company refuses to cover for its employees." -Washington Post

No, my issue with the decision is what it can now lead to. Corporations are legally people and have been since 2010. Now, our government is granting them ever greater layers to practice their “humanity,” and not all corporations are interested in the common man and woman’s good. Not all of them are Christian. From Facebook, here’s an image of what we could have to look forward.

Can you honestly say that, in your opinion, no corporation would even try to abuse these new legal freedoms?

At the end of the day, if you look at America without beer/patriotic/blind eyes, we are essentially being attacked from two fronts. Who is we? The common man, that’s who. We are being bullied by big money, big corporations, and big government. From one end, the President is literally trying to force you to live a “better” life by regulating you. From another side, corporations are becoming humanistic and allowed to, at least legally and figuratively, live and breathe as an organism. And remember, people are not naturally good. Our survival instincts are first, our moral code built. Corporations (and our government) have already shown us what their moral character is made of…and it’s not to protect or make life better for the no-longer-existent Middle Class.

We are just Poor people, with a very few rich people and now great hulking behemoths, walking over us. God bless America.