Hi, this is Michelle from Seattle, Washington, a true native born and bred.

I'd like to do a little shout out today to a Mr. Nate Bowen also in Seattle,

Washington, and thank him for introducing me to the awesome Best to Left podcast.

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And now, welcome to the award-winning Best to the Left podcast,

with clips today from marktheode.com, this week in Blackness,

Moyers & Company, the David Pakman Show, the Media Matters Minute, and the majority report.

And I for one, welcome the recent Hobby Lobby decision by the Supreme Court,

as it's yet another and a long line of glowing examples of why we need to institute single pair already.

There's a case pending at the Supreme Court called Hobby Lobby,

Civilian versus Hobby Lobby, which is actually an employer's effort to claim a religious

protection and a for-profit institution. I think what's at play here is the attempt to use religion

to achieve what are basically political goals. In that case, what they want to do is undermine

the Affordable Care Act and that it is using faith and a person's faith to undermine the fact

that we all have right to healthcare in our nation. What they're trying to say as an employer

can control what quality of healthcare I get based on the employer's religious perspective.

This is wrong. It's the wrong way forward because it's imposing my will or an employer's will

on another. That's not us. If the court finds in favor of the plaintiffs, it would be the first

time that corporate rights were upheld, that idea that corporations have this right to be this

or that would be held at the expense of their workers, where it would quash the rights of their

workers. That would set a very, very chilling precedent. Just because it was only restricted to

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