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1 lostlakehiker  Jul 2, 2014 9:39:11am

Headlines leave details out. “Deny birth control” leaves out a lot of details.

Companies are never in a position to prevent women from getting birth control. What is at issue is whether the women have to buy it with their own money or get it given to them by somebody else, because the company isn’t providing it.

But for the sake of discussion, let us agree that not giving somebody something, and expecting them to buy it for themselves, shall be called “denying them” the thing.

Almost all forms of birth control are outside the scope of the court case. Hobby Lobby and all the others will be providing “the pill” as part of the health care insurance that comes as part of the pay of employees. What is at issue are those forms of birth control that work by preventing a fertilized egg from implanting. These, to the minds of the Hobby Lobby owners and of conservative Christians in general, go against conscience since biologically, life really does begin at conception, and since in their theology, the soul begins then too.

The SC ruling held that the Restoration of Religious Freedom act (Bill Clinton’s baby) protected this theologically grounded belief. According to the teachings of their faith, providing these devices makes them a party to murder, and if they have to do that in order to remain in business, they’ll just have to go out of business.

The whole point of religious freedom is that if the government stays out of the weeds and doesn’t rule on whose theology is the One True Faith, it’s a lot less trouble than the Thirty Years Wars way of settling things.

According to the court, there are other ways, less coercive, to get “the morning after” pill and such-not into the hands of women who have occasion to want it, and who in the view of the State shouldn’t have to pay for it. Ways that achieve the same end that the public at large, and the State, want, but without putting religious eccentrics in a bind.

So far as I know, Hobby Lobby has no plans to obstruct any government move to step in and provide these devices, free of charge, to employees who aren’t getting them from their employer. So in the end, with some common-sense legislative or administrative tweaks, no employee should end up denied the means to prevent an unwanted pregnancy by getting rid of an unwanted fertilized egg.

And the court doesn’t have to rule on how many cells it takes to store a soul.

2 wrenchwench  Jul 2, 2014 9:53:27am

re: #1 lostlakehiker

So much bullshit.

3 CuriousLurker  Jul 2, 2014 10:21:43am

re: #2 wrenchwench

Indeed. Just wait until a non-Christian (or even a Christian Scientist or Mormon) business owner files a suit that steps on a “mainstream” Christian’s benefits. Then there will be much outrage & whining about government tyranny & judicial activism. SCOTUS justices are human and therefore far from infallible; they’ve opened a Pandora’s Box and the lower courts are going to be drowning in the fallout from this crap for years to come.

A jackal has swallowed a sickle. When the time comes for him to excrete it, you will hear his howling. —MIddle Eastern proverb


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