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In the Hobby Lobby decision handed down last month, the Supreme Court was asked to strike a balance between women’s rights and religious freedom. But the major conflict that has erupted in the.

Hobby Lobby , on Tuesday backed off from support for a pending bill in Congress to make it illegal to discriminate in the workplace based on sexual orientation. Some gay rights activists have been working for such a bill for decades, and finally succeeded in the Senate in November. The text of the religious exemption in the bill to which they object can be read here.

Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., the conservative five-justice majority found that closely held corporations do not have to comply with the Affordable Care Act's requirement that insurance plans cover.

Its vaguely worded language has the potential to allow for discrimination of LGBT patrons by business owners if they feel doing business with them contradicts their religious beliefs. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, which has advocated for ENDA for the past two decades, rescinded its support for the legislation due to the inclusion of these exemptions. Others argue that the religious exemption was an unavoidable compromise in order to gain bipartisan support that would not have been possible otherwise.

In the Hobby Lobby decision handed down last month, the Supreme Court was asked to strike a balance between women’s rights and religious freedom. But the major conflict that has erupted in the.

However, the local Gay and Lesbian Alliance GALA is expressing concern about the store opening a location in San Luis Obispo, and the group is asking community members to shop somewhere else. Ruggles says Hobby Lobby has a history of taking out ads in newspapers and petitioning local, state and federal representatives to push their political views. They have a very narrow view of how the country should be run," said Ruggles.

Though most legal experts agree that race-based discrimination is unlikely to return, the Hobby Lobby decision is already having an effect on the fight for gay rights in the workplace.

In an unprecedented decision this week, the Supreme Court ruled that employers can use their religious beliefs to deny their employees access to benefits that they are guaranteed by law to receive. Hobby Lobby Case Background The two for-profit companies who brought this case to the Supreme Court are the arts-and-crafts chain store Hobby Lobby based in Oklahoma, and a custom wood cabinet company in Pennsylvania called Conestoga Wood Specialties. Hobby Lobby first challenged the federal contraception rule, arguing that covering certain forms of birth control including emergency contraception and IUDs violated their religious beliefs.