Well, once again, the so-called Supreme Court of the United States of America has shown it is the judicial arm of the Republican Party.  In its latest ruling, Hobby Lobby, a for-profit corporation can deny women certain contraception coverage in its employer-provided health plan on “religious grounds.”  Let’s not even get into the discussion of separation of church and state which Republicans ignore when it suits their purpose, nor the hypocrisy of Republicans’ ranting about government encroaching on citizens’ private lives (conception would seem to me to be something really private in peoples’ lives).  Let’s just consider a hypothetical new case brought before the Supreme Court.  Let’s say a Muslim family is the single owner of a privately owned, for-profit manufacturing company that makes toys.  It is such a prosperous company that it runs three shifts round the clock.  It employs 15,000 Americans.  However, It expects all employees on all shifts to report for work on December 25 and the employees, predominantly Christian, file a law suit saying that it is their most important holiday and they should get the day off.  By requiring work on that day, the plaintiffs contend, their religious freedom is being curtailed. The Muslim family retorts that based on their “religious grounds” it is not a holiday and they have no obligation to give Christian employees the day off.  Oh, this toy company also prohibits employees’ bringing ham sandwiches into the building also on “religious grounds.” Silly isn’t it, but that’s essentially what the Supreme Court did. Assume an exceptionally good female employee of Hobby Lobby wants to use contraceptives, specifically one the Hobby Lobby family objects to.  She does not share her employer’s religious beliefs.  However, in this instance she is subjected to the employers beliefs and denied something included in a United States law (yes, the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act as law) because of “religious belief.” You can see where I am going.  What’s the next thing for-profit corporations will use “religious grounds” to avoid complying with a law they don’t like.  This, once again, is not a question of “Democrats waging a war against religion,” as the Republicans are wont to say.  It is a question of the political right in collaboration with a conservative-loaded Supreme Court endorsing and imposing Christian religious beliefs on others who not share them.