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By Tally
So
. Why?
Two things:
2. Like our black POTUS, its about controlling women as if theyre property, and making sure we know our place.
Dear stupid old men: Allow me to educate you. Women know their place. Theres no confusion. Were the ones who bleed out of our genitals for a week out of every month for over 40 years, can pass a life form the size of an adult cat out of those same genitals while retaining its elasticity, all while remaining alive and sane, and able to multitask.
Men not only lack all of those skills and equipment, but find it a challenge to understand how basic biology works, and feel the need to control what they dont understand.
Oh Please Read it All: http://theobamadiary.com/2014/07/02/hobby-lobbyscotus-why/#more-177495
SCROTUS you get a big fat F-. You will go down in history as being the worst most partisan Supreme Court in our history. You have wrecked more havoc and have done your best to undermine a centuries worth of work by the people that only wish liberty and justice for all. Shame on you. You and your corporate sponsors have become the terrorists.
liberalla
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Another point that really ticks me off and was so very well expressed by Bjorn Against is the fact that they are all Catholic, and they came down in line with church doctrine. The media is missing this aspect of the story.
"All five of the "justices" who voted in Hobby Lobby's favor are members of the Roman Catholic Church which is a church that is well known for opposing insurance coverage for contraceptives. All five of them voted for their church's position, but they explicitly excluded the religious beliefs of faiths other than their own from having the same "religious freedom" they claim Hobby Lobby should be able to impose on their employees.
The Supreme Court explicitly said that this ruling is limited to the issue of contraceptives and does not apply to other medical treatments that some other religions oppose such as blood transfusions and vaccines. Now don't get me wrong I absolutely do not think employers should get exemptions from covering blood transfusions or vaccines, like birth control those are basic forms of health care that everyone should have access to. What I do have a problem with is that the Supreme Court decided it can pick and choose which religious beliefs can get their followers exemptions from providing health care to their employees and which ones can not, [font size=3]and it just so happens that they chose their own religious belief[/font] as one whose followers do not have to follow the same rules that everyone else has to follow.
This is something that I think needs to be called out, when a major Supreme Court ruling on religion is decided entirely by members of one religion that is a problem. When their ruling provides protections for their own religious belief while explicitly excluding the same protection for beliefs that they do not hold that is an even bigger problem yet. It is extremely dangerous to our democracy to have five unelected men who have the power to make decisions that can alter the course of history, these are men who have the power to make a decision that benefits their personal religion over other beliefs be they religious or secular and there is little we can do to hold them accountable for making such a blatantly biased decision.
Let's face it, the Supreme Court is an undemocratic institution and by using the courts to carve out a special exemption for people who share their religious views in opposition to contraception they have shown their contempt for equal protection under the law. I really think people need to start talking about removing these guys from the bench, there is no reason these people should be free from calls for accountability when they use the court to allow them to impose their own religious views on to others."