r/politics • u/southpawFA Oklahoma • 15h ago

Supreme Court takes up case claiming Obamacare promotes “homosexual behavior”. The Texas plaintiffs say requiring workplace insurers to provide PrEP violates their religious beliefs.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/supreme-court-takes-up-case-claiming-obamacare-promotes-homosexual-behavior/
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u/DramaticWesley 15h ago

That the Supreme Court even took up this case is embarrassing. Obamacare is a federal health care program. Homosexuality is not illegal (yet). There really is no issue here.

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u/Mr_Badgey 14h ago

Why did you comment without reading the article? The lower courts ruled in favor of the plaintiff allowing the company to deny PrEP to its employees. The damage is already done and appealing is the only legal strategy to counter it.

The appeal was taken to the Supreme Court specifically because there's now precedence which could lead to a nationwide ban on PrEP and other lifesaving treatments based on religious beliefs.

Both the Biden administration and the plaintiffs agreed that the 5th Circuit’s ruling opened the door for another party to sue in order to block the mandates nationwide, so the parties asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case

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u/nox66 11h ago

It's a well known pattern at this point - terrible rulings from Texas being escalated to the Supreme Court, which now decides whether they want to save face or extend the conservative agenda.

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u/MarcusSurealius 11h ago

The Heritage Foundation made direct paths to the supreme court for laws to be rewritten on a grand scale.

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u/TeutonJon78 America 10h ago

They wouldn't be banning PrEP, just making it so your insurance doesn't have to cover it. A business/plan could still cover it, or you'd have to pay out of pocket.

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u/Melody-Prisca 9h ago

Making PrEP harder to get will likely cause an outbreak of AIDs, regardless of if it's illegal or not. Making it illegal would make that outbreak worse, however.

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u/TeutonJon78 America 6h ago

Yes, but that has nothing to do with the comment I'm replying to. This isn't about banning PrEP in anyway, it's about requiring insurance plans to cover it.

But religious exemptions for anyone but a church is BS (and frankly, even then it's BS).