GOP Rep.: Hobby Lobby Ruling Keeps Liberals From Reinstating 'Stone Age Tribalism'

[herding cats]

Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX), who launched a strange, unsuccessful primary bid to unseat Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) this year, warned this week that the Hobby Lobby ruling shows that "liberals seek to drag us back to Stone Age tribalism."

"Today is a great victory for religious freedom in America, which has been severely under attack by the anti-freedom Left and its special interest groups," Stockman said in a Monday statement. "It is ironic for the Left to scream no interference in a woman’s decision to obtain contraceptives, but then to argue the government should interfere in that decision to fulfill a supposed ‘inherent’ right to contraceptives."

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"Civilization is a society in which the rights of the individual trump the whims of the majority. This ruling is a reminder liberals seek to drag us back to Stone Age tribalism in which one can be subjugated to the tribe as a whole," he said. "The belief people can be forced to buy you something that violates their beliefs is the height of arrogance, greed, selfishness and brute force. The Court rejected that tribal belief and upheld the ideas upon which this nation was founded. You are an individual and no one owns your mind or conscience."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/stockman-hobby-lobby-stone-age-tribalism

This coming from a Ted Nugent loving expert in sending women back to the stone age. What about the women's individual right to choose their own type of birth control? How is it acceptable for an employer to have more rights in that area than the individual these choices directly impact?

[treestar]

1. Projection at its finest

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. sublime self-unawareness.

Sometimes you just have to applaud stupidity as performance art.

[Gman]

3. There's something very effed up about what he said.

"Civilization is a society in which the rights of the individual trump the whims of the majority. This ruling is a reminder liberals seek to drag us back to Stone Age tribalism in which one can be subjugated to the tribe as a whole,"

Yet they claim to speak for all the American people, it's this will of their imagined majority they seek to impose on the individual woman.

That is so effed up.

[herding cats]

4. Yep. treestar nailed it above.

It's projection at its finest.

[Zambero]

5. Modern-day conservatism

is a remnant genetic carry-over from, ahem... Stone Age Tribalism (no quotes), the fear and survival aspects of which might have served primitive societies well. However, it has little to no beneficial application in a civilized society, and resurfaces all too often with efforts to undo hard-fought social and economic progress, and in denying any scientific finding deemed to be in conflict with inflexible religious beliefs. This is one of the finer examples of projection I have seen in quite a while, not surprisingly coming from the likes of Rep. Stockman.

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. Ugh! STFU! you repuke A$$HOLE hypocrite!