The First Amendment protects religious freedom, the primary argument against the Obamacare contraception mandate. The same amendment also protects freedom of association, mentioned nowhere in the legal case against it.
Hobby Lobby supporters gather outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., March 25, 2014. The Supreme Court heard arguments over whether corporations can refuse to cover contraceptive services in their employees’ health care for religious beliefs. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski)
So some libertarians — who generally oppose the mandate — are not entirely of one mind on the legal basis of the challenge in the Hobby Lobby case awaiting a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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