Government and employers capture the employee bedroom

by Groff Schroeder

The stunning Burwell v. Hobby Lobby et.al. Supreme Court Decision grants "closely held" corporations newly created "religious freedoms" that trump the religious freedoms of living breathing human beings.  This creates a special class of "corporate personhood" with the power to nullify the human freedoms and Constitutional Rights of its Human employees.

Since this decision specifically involves the employees' access to effective, legal, and safe forms of contraception, the decision not only expands government intrusion into citizens' bedrooms, but also invites employers to intrude into the sex lives of their employees by exercising corporate power (allegedly) narrowly designed to limit the reproductive choices of employees.  By giving corporations the power to force employees to comply with the employer's religious beliefs, Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby radically alters the employer-employee relationship, endowing the employer with the power to use claims of religious freedom to overrule the most intimate religious, personal, reproductive, and medical freedoms of employees.

This grants corporate persons a form of super citizenship that trumps the most basic freedoms of their employees by giving the employer some measure of control over the reproductive processes of its employees.  The Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby Supreme Court Decision makes the relationship between these newly minted super human corporations with religious freedom rights and their hapless Human employees less like the traditional employer-employee relationship and more like the relationship between rancher and livestock.

Moo.