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So here is a funny thing. And not an April Fools haha-just-kidding-PSYCH!-YA BURNT! unfunny funny thing, but an actual hilarious-on-any-day-of-the-year funny thing.
You know that arts and crafts store, Hobby Lobby, created in Gods image to provide bored housewives with all their scrapbooking and needlepointing needs at made-in-China bargain basement prices? Of course you do, because Hobby Lobby is suing for its right to tell its lady employees they cannot use contraceptives (scratch that, SOME contraceptives that the Bible says are actually abortion even though they are not abortion and the Bible doesnt say that).
You may remember way back to last week when Hobby Lobbys attorney, Paul Clement, argued to the Supreme Court that requiring the companys insurance provider to comply with federal slut-pills regulations would be a burden and also super unfair and would make Jesus cry, and the Greens, who founded the store, would be forced to violate their Sincerely Held Religious BeliefsTM, which they discovered coincidentally, wink wink in 2012, when Hobby Lobby suddenly decided to stop covering those very same medications it now says have been banned by God since the beginning of the world, 6000ish years ago. Justice Sotomayor asked Clement if granting a Sincerely Held Religious Beliefs exemption to companies could lead to refusing coverage for other such medical treatments as blood transfusions and vaccines. Clement said (basically), Hahah, no, silly lady, dont be ridiculous, were not trying to restrict real health care, just lady health care because (actual quote) its so religiously sensitive, so fraught with religious controversy. Justice Sotomayor was said to then bang her head on her desk repeatedly and end her day drinking all the bleach. Or so weve speculated.
So you can see that Hobby Lobby sincerely believes slut pills and abortion are THE WORST and should therefore be allowed to deny its employees access to such. If the government crams this mandate down Hobby Lobbys throat, it will be the end of religious freedom and the First Amendment and probably the apocalypse will be nigh because that is how much Hobby Lobby is opposed to being involved in any way at all whatsoever, even through a third party, with SOME birth control. In all circumstances, no exceptions, no asterisks.
Oh, whatt this we have here? Why it is an asterisk, courtesy of Mother Jones:
Read more at http://wonkette.com/545429/hobby-lobby-sincerely-believes-slut-pills-are-the-worst-except-when-hobby-lobby-profits#xXCGdo9v5zd9hU0j.99
Hypocrisy, thy name is Hobby Lobby.
cui bono
(19,926 posts)BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)But oh my, I loved this post. I wonder how many non-quiverfool ladies are shopping HL now? The answer should be NONE. Most kid-loving friends I have and even the few religious people I know despise the idea of restricting access to family planning and really extra super hate the idea of an employer getting to say squat about it. I hope I get to read a HL Chapter 13 filing real soon!
GeorgeGist
(25,319 posts)coveting other men's wives?