Boycotting a store at which you don’t shop makes about as much sense as complaining about a SCOTUS ruling that exists only in your imagination. Clearly, getting a verified Twitter account is way easier than getting a clue.
Backbench celebrities and pundits are crawling out of the woodwork to make what they must believe are very wise and witty statements about the Hobby Lobby ruling.
Women's medical decisions can now be shaped by the gods their for-profit employers choose to worship. http://t.co/awgVXzL956
— Robin Abcarian (@AbcarianLAT) June 30, 2014
A lot of circumstances “shape” medical decisions, but the only coercion here was a government coercing Hobby Lobby. Nobody is coerced to work for them or for any other “closely held” company, and nobody has been forbidden from—heaven forbid—using their own money to pay for options not covered by their insurance.
So will Hobby Lobby start offering childcare & generous maternity packages to their employees? Seems like the only reasonable thing to do.
— Wendi McLendon-Covey (@wendimclendonco) June 30, 2014
Why is it “reasonable” to assume that employers are morally obligated to shop for personal services for their employees? “Reasonable” would be paying people for their work with money and letting them make their own decisions on how to spend it.
https://twitter.com/kumailn/status/483715866001829888
Derp. Maybe you didn’t notice but the case was about the government butting into religion, not the other way around.
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Thank you #SCOTUS. I am now going to sacrifice a goat in the lobby of my NY co-op. Take that, upper west side. #HobbyLobby
— Elayne Boosler (@ElayneBoosler) June 30, 2014
Anyone know if Elayne is a drinker? Seriously.
Just joined that religion where you don't believe in paying parking tix or not urinating in bushes. Gonna be awesome! Thanks SCOTUS!
— Adam McKay (@GhostPanther) June 30, 2014
Some people aren’t even pretending to understand what the case was about.
The miseducation that some people have about women ONLY taking BC to prevent pregnancy is so sad- I'm gonna shut up now but seriously- wow ?
— Best Coast (@BestCoast) June 30, 2014
Person miseducated about the Hobby Lobby case condemns miseducation about birth control.
SCOTUS has already given corps right to skew elections with massive amounts of $. Now, some can impose religious precepts. #Dangerous
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) June 30, 2014
Name one religious precept imposed by Hobby Lobby. You can’t, Chucky.
#SCOTUS says corporations have religious freedoms. Were they endowed with those by their creator? Oh wait, that's us. #ReligiousFreedom
— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) June 30, 2014
Sorry, Cenk. You didn’t build that. People don’t lose their religious liberty just because they hire someone for a job.
And on the eighth day, God decreed that closely held businesses shall be unfettered by rational insurance practices
— David Lazarus (@Davidlaz) June 30, 2014
Employer provided insurance is nothing but an unintended consequence of past progressive assclownery like wage and price controls. Remaining hidebound to it to the degree you start trampling religious freedom is not rational in the least. Rational insurance practice is the insurance customer finding their own insurance provider–as happens when someone insures their home, their car, their business, etc.
Deliver us from what liberals deem “rational.”
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