Hobby Lobby Wants To Control Which Bathroom A Transgender Woman Can Use, Too

[theHandpuppet]

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Hobby Lobby Wants To Control Which Bathroom A Transgender Woman Can Use, Too
07/11/2014

In the days after the Supreme Court handed Hobby Lobby a sweeping victory in its fight to not provide employee health insurance that covers certain kinds of birth control, many customers came into the store in Aurora, Illinois, where Meggan Sommerville works, and offered their congratulations...

...Sommerville is a transgender woman, and back in 2011, she filed a complaint against Hobby Lobby with the Illinois Department of Human Rights after the company refused to allow her to use the women's bathroom either as a customer or an employee.

She was never given an explanation. But Sommerville said she sees a connection with Hobby Lobby's argument that Christian principles should excuse it from covering some contraceptives.

"I don't believe that any company has the right to deny access to appropriate medical care, same as the reason why I don't believe that they have the right to deny me access to the washroom," she said in a recent phone call with The Huffington Post. "No company has the right to dictate what is decided between me and my doctor."

MORE at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/11/hobby-lobby-transgender_n_5575696.html

[shenmue]

1. Hobby Lobby is obsessed with naughty bits

Friggin' repressed fundamentalist weirdos.

[Warpy]

2. I almost wished I shopped there

just so I could stop.

Yes, fundy Christians are all obsessed with things they shouldn't be obsessing about. It's the one thing Freud was correct about, pointing at others while trying to conceal the same things in themselves.

[theHandpuppet]

4. Yeah, there's no HL where I live, either

But I'd love to go there just once so I could leave condoms in all the shopping carts.

[theHandpuppet]

3. Honestly, it's a psychological disorder

It seems all they think about is what LGBTs are doing in bed. That's just so damn weird.

[Initech]

7. Seriously, it has to be.

There's just no other explanation. If we could only get it recognized by the DSM!

[RKP5637]

8. It really is, they seem to have gathered all under one tent so they can obsess about

genitalia, and then say it's for Jesus and god. These, are a bunch of sick people hiding under the cover of religion. I will never understand why so many people are so DUH and clueless as to what they are about. Shake the cross, pound the bible, wave the flag and so many turn off their brains.

[Louisiana1976]

5. Hope the IL Dept. of Human Rights rules in her favor soon. Hobby Lobby should

mind its own business about which bathroom she uses.

[Joe Magarac]

6. It would be more accurate to say that they want the government to control it for them. n/t