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“The Attitude” is a one-hour, and is available on Audioport at: http://audioport.org/index.php?op=series&series=Attitude+with+Arnie+Arnesen& Today’s show features: Arnie was in meetings in Washington today. This is a rebroadcast of March 27, 2014. Worth a second listen! Part one: AlterNet Senior Editor Lynn Stuart Parramore Goldman Sachs’ Outrageous Scheme to Profit Off Jailed Young Offenders Too-big-to-jail Wall Street is ripping off taxpayers with a “social impact bond. http://www.alternet.org/economy/goldman-sachs-outrageous-scheme-profit-jailed-young-offenders?page=0%2C2&paging=off t_page=1#bookmark Part two: UNH Law Professor John Greabe discusses the Hobby Lobby case heard by the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Hobby Lobby the Supreme Court’s birth control case or is it? But a document published here (Salon.com) for the first time reveals Hobby Lobby appears to be going much further than protecting freedom, providing funding for a group that backs a political network of activist groups deeply engaged in pushing a Christian agenda into American law. The document shows entities related to the company to be two of the largest donors to the organization funding a right-wing Christian agenda, investing tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars into a vast network of organizations working in concert to advance an agenda that would allow businesses to discriminate against gays and lesbians and deny their employees contraceptives under a maximalist interpretation of the Free Exercise Clause of the United States Constitution. http://www.salon.com/2014/03/27/hobby_lobbys_secret_agenda_how_its_secretly_funding_a_vast_right_wing_movement/ The Attitude host Arnie Arnesen – follow her at her twitter feed pchowder Blogger Susan Bruce – follow her at susanthebruce.blogspot.com
