Well…I am a little bemused today with the unintended fallout of the Hobby Lobby decision that gave corporations religious rights to refuse to cover contraceptives in their health plans…on the heels of that wrongheaded mess, the announcement today of the satanist church asserting that this decision gives them the right to ignore any state or federal law that restricts a woman’s right to abortion since their church has as one of its tenets that science and not religion should be the basis for all health decisions made me smile. The church asserts these ‘closely held beliefs” should be treated the same as those of the christians that own Hobby Lobby and to be treated differently would be unconstitutional and a violation of the 14th amendment. Which it is. These idiots on the supreme court thought that their ruling would only apply to christians but they can’t have it both ways…if one group is given special rights, then the rest of them get those same rights…I applaud the satanists for pushing back against this nonsense and their fight against the religiosity that is ruining this country…religion belongs in church, not in government…geez…
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Need to start thinking about catching up…
Well…it’s only halfway through the month and I’m already thinking about being behind so I thought I’d do one more right now and then the world cup one later….I am still stewing about the Hobby Lobby decision that gives employers the right to control their workers when not on the job…and it is so against the first amendment that I think the 5 catholics on the court that made the decision should be impeached….but, not only for this case, there is also the citizens united case that gave corporations free speech rights to spend as much they want to buy elections, and that overturned a hundred years of precedents…and, these are not aberrations, they are the ideology that these guys are pushing…that the rich and corporations are just a little more equal than the rest of us…just like the pigs in “Animal Farm”…..a cautionary tale that everyone should have read in high school…and that specifically had the point that inequality destroys societies…but these guys just don’t care, they have a vision of the rich running and ruining everyone’s lives and they are doing their best to make sure that happens…geez…
I predicted this…
Well…in the wake of the wrong headed HL decision by the supreme court, I predicted that this was not going to be where this blatant attack on women would end…and, I was right…as of yesterday, there have been over 100 companies who have applied to no longer cover birth control due to religious reasons…what I want to know is what are women going to do about it? I think those of us that think that women can make their own decisions about their health need to start making these companies pay for this naked aggression by boycotting anything they make, any service they provide, and being loud about it…starting with Hobby Lobby…the creeps that run that company should be made to pay….religion belongs in church, not in business and any business that starts this crap should be cut out of any government contract that they may apply for….we on the left need to start pushing back…after all, the majority of the country agree with us…geez…
The bible is the new “get out of jail free” card…
Well…with the ridiculous ruling that came out today from the supreme court, a few thoughts came to mind as to what the true effects are going to be…and they will not be limited to contraception coverage as the court has asserted…and, I think they specifically mentioned that this is the only exception to set the ACA up for other challenges in the future…after all, how long will it take for a christian scientist that owns a corporation to sue since they still have to cover transfusions that their religion specifically forbids? What this court has done is given every religious, or supposedly religious, idiot the right to not follow any law because…bible? Want to discriminate against gays? Bible. Want to not promote any women? Bible. Want to not pay taxes? Bible. This ruling is a virtual get out of jail free card for the bigots and religious idiots to continue to hate anyone who is not white and christian…geez…can this country get any worse?
The court gets it wrong again…
Well…as we all expected, the supreme court today gave religious employers the right to discriminate against women by granting corporations religious rights. Yep, you heard that right, corporations now have religious rights and are allowed to single out women for discrimination by not having to cover their contraception in their health plans…and the court was naked in it’s discrimination specifically stating that it only applied to contraception, not any other health service that the plan would cover…so, men continue to get everything covered but women can go to hell. I have had enough of the supposedly religious in this country getting their way all the time with help from this court who regularly discard hundreds of years of precedents to make law for their right wing masters…geez…
Hobby Lobby tomorrow…
Well…not sure if you have been following this case that has been decided and will be released tomorrow where a corporation, Hobby Lobby, that is owned by religious zealots, has an objection to having to provide contraception in it’s health care plan and has sued to be exempt. Yep…they want this corporation to now have religious rights to go with the free speech rights that were granted them in Citizens United…what’s next? If this is decided in HL’s favor, basically all federal and state laws have been voided if you assert that you have an objection for religious grounds….want to speed? The Bible has no mention of speed limits so you don’t have to follow them….want to stone someone to death for sleeping with the neighbors wife? Says you can in the Bible so the laws against it made by man no longer apply…you get where I’m going here? If the idiot supreme court goes against 200 years of precedent and gives HL these rights, there is no law that can’t be challenged on religious grounds…we’ll just be another theocracy run by Christians…and I won’t want to live here…geez…
Now corporations have religion, too?
Well…I am amazed at the new case that comes before the supreme court today where a for profit corporation is suing to not have to have their insurance carrier cover birth control….and, they are suing on religious grounds, as if a corporation goes to church and prays…yeah, not making this one up. You only have to think what the ramification of a win for these asses would mean…then, the corporation would own you even more than they do now and could intrude on you life for religious grounds even if you’re an atheist…don’t go to church? Fired. Married to a black woman? Fired. Muslim? Fired. You can see where I’m going here…if these people prevail, the rights of all Americans will be decimated and the religious asses that try to control their employees lives outside work will have complete control…just what the righties want…geez….