[EL] another perspective on Hobby Lobby/ How the Hobby Lobby ruling transforms and weakens the American corporation

[Joe La Rue]

David:

I think your op-ed is mistaken but did not want to wage this debate on the
list serve because I think it's badly off-topic.   I will simply say two
things.  Firs,t if the horrible outcomes you suggest as possible were going
to occur, they would have already happened.  Corporations have long had
constitutional and other protections afforded to natural persons.  Second,
many (perhaps most) corporations *already *take positions on moral
questions.  Many very publicly support marriage redefinition.  Some take
very public positions regarding environmentalism and/or global warming.
  If you are going to suggest that a corporation, owned by an actual
family, should not take a position on what they sincerely believe to be
abortifacients, are you likewise willing to suggest that corporations
should cease taking positions on what they sincerely believe is "marriage
equality" or "climate change?"

Joe


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On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 5:09 AM, Schultz, David A. <dschultz at hamline.edu>
wrote:

> Joe:
> Hobby Lobby and Citizens United both have  implications for election law.
> Hobby Lobby takes us further down the road toward giving corporations more
> rights that real persons have and in the process, sets precedents for
> further challenges to restrictions on corporate political activity.  Hobby
> Lobby and CU together, as my op-ed point out, show some of the implications
> that go with politicizing  corporate behavior and eviscerating the line
> between real persons and corporations.  I had hoped that if you read my
> op-ed you would have seen that point.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 7:01 AM, Joe La Rue <joseph.e.larue at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Again I ask: what does Hobby Lobby have to do with election law? If we
>> are going to have this debate here I'll be glad to have it.  But I've
>> always thought Rick wants the list serve to be about election law, not
>> prolife or abortion debates.
>>
>> On Jul 10, 2014, at 7:42, "Schultz, David A." <dschultz at hamline.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Conservatives got what they wanted in Citizens United and Hobby Lobby and
>> now they will pay the price with a weakened  American corporation.  Read
>> why Hobby Lobby did more to change corporate law than any liberal reformer
>> could do.
>>
>> "How the Hobby Lobby ruling transforms and weakens the American
>> corporation"
>>
>>
>> http://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2014/07/how-hobby-lobby-ruling-transforms-and-weakens-american-corporation
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