How America's Biblical Ignorance Allows Christian Right to Use 'Religious Freedom' For Own Agenda
http://www.alternet.org/belief/how-americas-biblical-ignorance-allows-christian-right-use-religious-freedom-their-own-agenda
The Bible doesn’t mention anything about contraception or abortion, but this hasn’t stopped 89 million American evangelicals acting as if “thou shall not consume a pregnancy pill” were one of the Ten Commandments. For the benefit of my mostly American audience, it’s not. In fact, the first four of the Hebrew God’s Decalogue amount to nothing more than “maniacal throat clearing,” to steal a phrase from the late Christopher Hitchens.
The decision of the five conservative justices to rule in favor of Hobby Lobby, thus granting religious personhood to 90 percent of U.S. corporations, which means that certain for-profit companies may refuse to cover forms of birth control they find morally objectionable, has been debated from every angle except one: the theological perspective.
An overwhelming majority of hyper-religious Americans, and Americans in general, are incapable of debating the theological aspect of their faith. Not only do a staggering majority of Americans have no idea what is or isn’t written in the Bible, they have not a morsel of knowledge as it pertains to just about all aspects of historical context and biblical scholarship.
At a time of heightened controversy surrounding women’s reproductive rights, most discourse relies upon the political, philosophical and legal dimensions of access to abortion and contraception. In almost all instances, religious traditions and theological perspectives are not fully explored beyond an occasional reference to the biblical commandment, “thou shall not kill.” The nation’s collective biblical ignorance not only prevents any reasonable theological debate, but also allows Christian fundamentalists, like Hobby Lobby and its Christian Right supporters, to contort scripture to their own advantage.
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they just don't care. It's more about punishing someone for doing something they don't approve of, which is sex. The "undeserving" don't "deserve" it.
I had a shocking conversation with a cute girl I had dated a few times recently. She's against the religious right so I thought it was a good sign. Until the conversation turned towards hobby lobby and she cast a lot of disgusting judgments down upon their workers like "if you work at minimum wage, you don't deserve to have sex" and "if they're too dumb to go to planned parenthood for free condoms, they shouldn't have sex" and other disgusting shit. It wasn't the first time I heard horrible stuff come from someone who looks so pretty and sweet. She's more educated than me, I wonder what she thinks of me behind my back.
Wait for it....she's an OB/GYN....MD....at a public hospital!
Eww.... some people. 
...someone you like and admire opens their mouth and something awful comes out.
They didn't say it was okay for the Pope to preach charity, even if they no longer believe in it. They began calling him a Communist, a word that this country has, since the Russian revolution spent much blood and many billions fighting and equating with the foulest of things (followed, of course, by "liberal."
I think they want their way or the highway.
Seriously. 
while fundies are characterized by Orwellian eisegesis: fundies operate by closing off all other means of thought (other than "what some pinko 19th-c. Bedlamites wrote" , so they can't even comprehend that other people can think differently from themselves; this is all possible because they're a hermetically-closed system theologically, with "debate" just being "how does McReady Price fit in with (your Leader here's) old-timey prejudices?"
heck, even some exposure to Plato would deal a firm blow to their intellectual inbreeding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthyphro_dilemma