Five takeaways from the Supreme Court decision

1. Corporations can’t pray, but they do have religious rights.

Hobby Lobby isn’t a person. It’s a company owned by a religious family. And though the Green family objects to parts of the Affordable Care Act’s emergency contraception mandate, it’s not the Greens but the company that writes the check for employees’ health insurance. The first question the justices had to answer was this: Does Hobby Lobby have religious rights? To many Americans, this sounds a little nutty. Does Burger King believe in God? Can Home Depot go to mass?

A majority of the justices held that a closely held company such as Hobby Lobby does have religious rights. The court didn’t apply those rights to publicly held corporations, however, where owners’ religious beliefs would be hard to discern.