...So in short, the bit about it not applying to publicly-held for-profit corporations appears to arise out of the difficulty of showing that they do have a sincere religious belief combined with the unlikelyness of such companies to seek the religious exemption to the contraceptive mandate already made to non-profit corporations...
That is what is so absurd with any ruling in favor of Hobby Lobby. A corporation is not a sentient being. It cannot have religious beliefs, sentient or otherwise. Sure the law seems to accept some sort of constructive belief. but let's face it, a corporation only has religious beliefs if its controlling shareholders share some tenets. Which leans against the corporate entity being its own separate "person" since you know mommy and daddy shareholder are telling it what to think anyhow.
Moreover if the corporation was "forced" to say, provide abortifacients, or lets get ridiculous...take female employees in one of the corporate cars to Planned Parenthood, its not the corporation that's suffering harm...what's the Don Bluth movie? All Corps Go to Heaven? Something like that. No...its the shareholders...which to me indicates the relationship is far too close...perhaps time to veil pierce.
