TIME White House  Hobby Lobby Puts Obama Between God and Gays
US President Barack Obama listens to a group of people, who
wrote letters to him, as he sits to dine with them at a
restaurant in Denver on July 8, 2014. Jewel Samad—AFP/Getty
Images  How the Supreme Court’s contraction decision brought
down the President’s signature gay rights legislation  President
Barack Obama’s seminal gay rights legislation has become the
latest casualty of the Supreme Court’s decision to allow Hobby
Lobby to deny their employees contraception on religious
grounds.  The Employee Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, was
passed by the Senate last year, but it has stalled in the House
in part because Republicans wanted greater religious exemptions.
But the exemptions already contained within the bill, gay rights
activists fear, provide a blue print for employers to
discriminate against gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender
peoples in the context of the Hobby Lobby decision.  “The
Supreme Court’s decision in Hobby Lobby has made i