Monday, July 7, 2014

An aging Athiest talks about death

http://www.upworthy.com/atheists-view-on-life-could-make-anyone-cry-4-minutes-in-the-interviewer-almost-gets-choked-up?c=ufb1

"Live your life. Live your life. Live your life." — Maurice Sendak, author of "Where the Wild things Are," to Terry Gross.

8 Other Laws to ignore now that it is legal to pick and choose religiously, of course.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/30/religious-companies-opt-out-of-laws_n_5544582.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013

As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wondered aloud in her dissent, "Would the exemption ... extend to employers with religiously grounded objections to blood transfusions (Jehovah's Witnesses); antidepressants (Scientologists); medications derived from pigs, including anesthesia, intravenous fluids, and pills coated with gelatin (certain Muslims, Jews, and Hindus)?"
As long as we're doing a la carte law-abiding, here are a few additional ones that could become optional to certain people with deeply held beliefs.
NUDITY LAWS
Entire colonies of people are dedicated to the belief that being compelled to wear clothes is wrong. Others don't believe they should be compelled to make love only indoors. Don't wanna see this on your Saturday stroll? Hey, freedom isn't free.

Sunday, July 6, 2014

HOBBY LOBBY Sex, Lies and Craft Supplies

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/02/hobby-lobby-sex-lies-and-craft-supplies.html

No, this is a victory for corporate greed digging its claws into whatever façade of a rationalization it can get within its grasp. Don’t listen to me, listen to Richard Cizik of the National Association of Evangelicals: “When anyone can use religion to claim an exemption on anything, religion loses meaning. Rather than a personal belief embedded in our souls, faith would become a set of arbitrary rules any corporation could choose from to skirt the law.”
Moreover, Cizik warns, this “puts government in charge of deciding what is or isn’t religion.” That doesn’t sound very free, does it?
If I were the religious faithful, I would be fairly annoyed at 90 percent of corporate America chomping at the bit to use my deeply held values as an excuse for their own misdeeds. Also, while the Bible does not take a firm position on abortion or when life begins, Jesus is pretty clear on one point: “You cannot serve both God and money” (Luke 16:13 and Matthew 6:24).

5 examples showing the differences of liberals vs conservatives on religious freedom

http://www.forwardprogressives.com/5-examples-showing-difference-liberals-conservatives-religious-freedom/

Liberals: Abortion: A woman and her doctor make the decision about an abortion.

Conservatives: Once pregnant, the woman must carry the baby to term. (A few have exceptions but many do not allow for exceptions for incest or rape type situations.)

Conservatives: Under their system of beliefs, abortion would be completely banned. No woman would have the right to have control over her own body. The moment she became pregnant she would lose almost all control she has over what happens to her body over the following 9 months. Under their belief system, every single American woman would be forced to adhere to the religious beliefs of a certain percentage of the population whether they shared those views or not. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/5-examples-showing-difference-liberals-conservatives-religious-freedom/#sthash.XfrX7PEO.dpuf

Paternal Love - A GREAT Commercial

http://www.eyeopening.info/2014/07/06/parental-love/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=parental-love&utm_source=Eye+Opening+Newsletter&utm_campaign=88b875b3e5-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fecb8a55b-88b875b3e5-180704649#.U7l21aiT5wk

You will tear up. Well worth watching

Saturday, July 5, 2014

Guns: An Englishman speaks about US Gun craziness

http://www.liberalamerica.org/2014/07/05/british-guy-america-gun-culture/

Re: School Shootings

“To reasonable Americans it’s horrifying. After the Port Arthur shooting, Australians stood up and said, “This is not worth the lives of children.” After Dunblane, the UK stood up and said, “This is not worth the lives of children.” After the *endless* stream of school shootings in America, Americans have stood up and said, “This is not worth the lives of children” — and the NRA (the lobbying arm of America’s arms industry) has responded, “SURE it is!”

Then the US cannot claim to be any kind of democracy. If the majority of people want things tightened, but a lobbying group is more powerful than the people, its wrong on so many levels. From the outside, it seems you are going backwards, we abolish the death penalty, you kill more, we tighten gun controls, you after each shooting seem to loosen them. Concealed carry? Open Carry? OMG, this is like the 3rd world ….. The US started so far ahead, a clean slate, a fresh start and you are going backwards. I am sure sometime soon, I will read someone has been burned at the stake for believing in Evolution, not creation.

How does the rest of the western world manage without guns to make them more FREE and manly! Everyone I see who is carrying a gun or shoots people in the US, looks like he has one friend and he is imaginary!

The constant cry from the Gun Lobby is that you can’t get rid of guns as the bad guys will always have them. Well, let’s look at that. Australia had very similar very lax gun control laws, it also prided itself on its pioneer spirit and freedom, the right to own a gun was part and parcel of that. I was living in Clare in South Australia at the time of the Port Arthur mass shooting. [In 1996, in Port Arthur, Australia, 35 people were killed and another 23 were injured by a lone gunman who used two semi-automatic weapons to unleash a reign of terror on the small city] I saw how Australians reacted to this. Port Arthur is part of South Australia. Australia has states, with state parliament’s and a central federal government, much like the US. A 28-year-old, who was described as having “significant intellectual disabilities,” was eventually caught and convicted of the crime. In the aftermath of this mass killing, the Australian government took bold and immediate steps to put in place gun control regulations. since then their gun regulations have got even tighter. Their gun deaths are now on a par with most European countries.

BOYCOTT EDEN FOODS and Hobby Lobby

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/04/1311705/--Grotesque-Mischaracterizations-and-Fallacious-Arguments-Eden-Farms-in-the-wake-of-Hobby-Lobby?detail=facebook

Dear Eden Organic (info@edenfoods.com)
I love organic food and I try to buy it as much as possible. Due to your position on providing birth control to your employees, I am now boycotting your products. I will let any grocery store at which I shop that carries your products know this as well.
Sincerely,
David M. Perry

I like this approach, short and sweet.

BC has a Carbon Tax. How is it working - GREAT ACTUALLY!

http://grist.org/climate-energy/b-c-put-a-price-on-carbon-what-happened-next-will-surprise-you/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily%2520June%252030&utm_campaign=daily

B.C. put a price on carbon. What happened next will surprise you

As a result, British Columbia’s per capita greenhouse gas emissions are now nearly 20 percent below the rest of Canada’s. This put the province “within spitting distance” of its goal to reduce emissions 6 percent below 2007 levels by 2012 a year ahead of schedule, says Mary Polak, B.C.’s minister of the environment.
Sustainable Prosperity, a research and policy institute that measured the tax’s impacts, reported that the policy reduced fuel consumption seven times more than if the price of gas had naturally increased by the same amount due to market fluctuations. The tax drove consumption down not just by pushing gas prices up, but also by raising awareness about why we need to reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
All that happened in the span of just five years.

Guns: He was out to kill a lot of people. He wanted to go out a warrior

http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2014/07/pennsylvania-man-arrested-with-arsenal.html

A man who was armed with two AR-15 assault rifles and carried a suicide note that said he wanted to “die in combat” was arrested in the West Village on Wednesday morning, police said.

Victor Greer, 46, of Reading, Pa., was pulled over about 1:15 a.m. while driving the wrong way down a one-way street — he was headed north on Seventh Ave. near Grove St., police said.

Inside his vehicle, cops found a .9-mm pistol, a pump-action shotgun and a box of ammo in addition to the AR-15 rifles — a high-powered killing machine that has been used in some of America's recent mass killings.

His suicide note read: “I want to die in combat, so I can go to heaven and meet God,” according to police.

Why the HOBBY LOBBY decision should scare you.

http://egbertowillies.com/2014/07/05/supreme-court-hobby-lobby/
Do you really want your boss to have the right to make your medical decisions? He takes the place of your Doctor? Is that what you want?

According to the Supreme Court – the owner’s religious beliefs trump all. For 52% of working Americans, they should be terrified, because what seemed so far-fetched is not anymore. Let’s be clear, this is about company’s rights over worker’s rights.
Finally, I saw on a post someone said if you owned a company wouldn’t you want to be able to run it by your religious beliefs and not have to compromise them. If I ran a for-profit company I would want to honor my beliefs, and the legal system that has not allowed religious discrimination (until now), honor my employee’s rights to their own religious beliefs, and keep my expectations to a professional manner that attracts the most talented employees, provides a respectful environment and makes customers feel valued. If you own a for-profit company not founded for religious purposes, your religion is yours, forcing it on your other 10 or 10,000 employees is not what our founding fathers ever intended – it is actually quite the opposite.

Hospice Care and Corporations: A money maker, good info if you are looking at Hospice

http://www.alternet.org/books/dying-dollars-corporatization-hospice-care?page=0%2C4&akid=11991.294211.ApnLuG&rd=1&src=newsletter1009576&t=7

From a mission of mercy, hospice has evolved into a $14 billion industry, increasingly run by corporate chains, and nobody gets more credit, or blame, than the Reverend Hugh Westbrook. He invented the very idea of the corporate hospice, when he and a couple of partners opened the first for-profit program, in Dallas, in 1984—right after the Medicare law he was instrumental in crafting began to pay for hospice services. Over the next two decades, he grew the company into VITAS Innovative Hospice Care, the largest hospice chain in the United States—or anywhere, for that matter, because hospice chains do not exist abroad. In the process, Westbrook proved the unthinkable: A business can make a fortune caring for dying people.
Certainly he did. He had yachts, a Florida beachfront mansion, and a mountain home in North Carolina.

Friday, July 4, 2014

A dozen facts about Conservatives they DO NOT want you to know.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/04/1311570/-Independence-Day-Special-A-Dozen-Facts-About-America-Conservatives-Would-Like-You-to-Forget?detail=facebook

Why Working Families Need Unions! Unions are more important than ever.

http://www.alternet.org/labor/you-celebrate-4th-remember-why-americas-working-families-need-unions-stay-strong?akid=11986.294211.1CR1Og&rd=1&src=newsletter1009459&t=13

As you celebrate with your loved ones over the holiday, remember how unions have helped American families secure prosperity and opportunity, and why we should consider unions a basic form of democracy.
The decline of the American labor movement, now representing just 12 percent of the workforce, and the corresponding increase in inequality hurts working families. Whether a home health aide, teacher, electrician, or autoworker, you are less likely to have a voice at work. This means lower wages, fewer benefits, and less ability to care for your family. It also means less democracy in our country.

Open Carry Gun In Store: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY,

http://www.pqed.org/2014/06/how-should-people-respond-to-open-carry.html?m=1

My proposal is as follows: we should all leave. Immediately. Leave the food on the table in the restaurant. Leave the groceries in the cart, in the aisle. Stop talking or engaging in the exchange. Just leave, unceremoniously, and fast.

But here is the key part: don’t pay. Stopping to pay in the presence of a person with a gun means risking your and your loved ones’ lives; money shouldn’t trump this. It doesn’t matter if you ate the meal. It doesn’t matter if you’ve just received food from the deli counter that can’t be resold. It doesn’t matter if you just got a haircut. Leave. If the business loses money, so be it. They can make the activists pay.

I worked at Hobby Lobby - Thoughts on Corporate Religion and Mega Churches

http://www.alternet.org/economy/i-worked-hobby-lobby-and-saw-troubling-world-corporate-christianity?akid=11986.294211.1CR1Og&rd=1&src=newsletter1009459&t=19

the real costs of the decision. Women's reproductive rights are compromised. The religious freedom of employees for these corporations is compromised. The sanctity of our religious institutions is also compromised. To protect religious pluralism and freedom of the individual we need clear demarcations between what is spiritual and what is economical. Otherwise, we sacrifice the soul of American religion and all that makes it good and why I study it on the altar of industry.

Thursday, July 3, 2014

Corporations may crumble because of Hobby Lobby! It changes the definition of a Corporation dramatically.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/07/hobby-lobbys-other-problem

Here's one more reason to worry about the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision, which allowed the arts and crafts chain to block insurance coverage of contraception for female employees because of the owners' religious objections: It could screw up corporate law.
This gets complicated, but bear with us. Basically, what you need to know is that if you and some friends start a company that makes a lot of money, you'll be rich, but if it incurs a lot of debt and fails, you won't be left to pay its bills. The Supreme Court affirmed this arrangement in a 2001 case, Cedric Kushner Promotions vs. Don King:

linguistically speaking, the employee and the corporation are different “persons,” even where the employee is the corporation’s sole owner. After all, incorporation’s basic purpose is to create a distinct legal entity, with legal rights, obligations, powers, and privileges different from those of the natural individuals who created it, who own it, or whom it employs.

That separation is what legal and business scholars call the "corporate veil," and it's fundamental to the entire operation. Now, thanks to the Hobby Lobby case, it's in question.

Woefully Underfunding the IRS: Consequences? Lower Tax Revenues.

http://www.taxjusticeblog.org/archive/2014/07/the_consequences_of_woefully_u.php#.U7VrsqiT5wl

Following up on their efforts to enact dramatic cuts to the IRS's funding last year, Republican members of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services voted to slash IRS funding by $341 million, pushing the agency's budget to its lowest level in more than five years. What makes these proposed spending cuts so ridiculous is that every dollar invested in the IRS’s enforcement, modernization and management system reduces the federal budget deficit by $200 and every dollar the IRS “spends for audits, liens and seizing property from tax cheats” garners ten dollars back. From fiscal year 2010 to 2014, the IRS has seen its overall funding cut by as much as 14 percent

Because the IRS's job is to collect taxes that pay for the rest of the government, it is unique in that cuts to its budget have the effect of substantially increasing the deficit. In fact, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) found that the 14 percent reduction in enforcement personnel from fiscal year (FY) 2010 to 2012 forced by budget cuts resulted in a loss of $7.6 billion in revenue in FY 2012 alone.

Corporate Tax Avoidance - The New Normal, Billions taken -Bye.

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/corporate-tax-avoidance-new-normal?utm_source=CEPR+feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cepr+%28CEPR%29

Gabriel Zucman – a student of Thomas Piketty – analyzed data on U.S. international transactions from the Bureau of Economic Analysis to document just how extensive tax avoidance by U.S. companies has become. He finds that U.S. multinationals attribute 55 percent of their foreign profits to six tax havens. Today, close to 20 percent of all U.S. corporate profits – domestic as well as foreign – are squirreled away in these countries, up from about 2 percent in 1984. This is a tenfold increase in the use of tax havens over the last three decades. The effective tax rate on U.S. multinationals has fallen dramatically as a result, saving them a total of $200 billion in 2013 alone in avoided tax payments to the governments of the U.S. and other countries.

It’s unclear where this will end if Congress doesn’t act soon to close the loopholes that enable multinational corporations to avoid paying profits taxes in the U.S. Covidien was a U.S. company until it moved its headquarters to Ireland five years ago while maintaining most of its operations in Massachusetts.

What does Jesus want with your Vagina? The Religious Right need to control your sex life.

http://www.alternet.org/belief/what-does-jesus-want-your-vagina-christian-rights-mission-control-americans-sex-lives

Monday’s Supreme Court decision in Burrell v Hobby Lobby was a blow against consumer protection, worker’s rights, and the religious liberty of employees who want their medical care to be free of what their boss thinks Jesus wants for their vagina. But it should be read as something else, as well: The end of the illusion that the anti-choice movement is about “life”, when in fact they are nothing more than a 21st century anti-sex league

it’s becoming increasingly fashionable on the right to portray women as inherently asexual beings who are being tricked by all this contraception into thinking they have to have sex, which allows them to argue that depriving women of reproductive rights is doing women a favor, by giving them an excuse to get out of that icky sex.

This argument has, by and large, not had much exposure to the general public and stayed within right wing circles, though Ross Douthat occasionally flexes the evils-of-contraception muscle in the New York Times. The Hobby Lobby decision, however, has forced the issue of contraception right into the mainstream, no doubt surprising many Americans who had no idea that there was anyone who opposed contraception, much less that there’s widespread antagonism against it when it comes to the Christian right. Hopefully, people will remember the lesson that this is not about “life” or “religion”, but strictly about the Christian right wanting to control female sexuality and punish women for having premarital sex ( about 95 percent of women) or for having non-procreative sex ( about 99 percent of women).

Guns: 10 States most likely and least likely to KILL People.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/10-states-where-guns-are-most-likely-and-least-likely-kill-people?akid=11982.294211.PUm6dK&rd=1&src=newsletter1009178&t=2

But blue states are far safer than red states, according new analyses of the most recent data. That’s because states with the most gun controls, which are almost all blue, tend to have fewer gun owners and fewer guns used in suicides, crime and domestic disputes.
Nearly two-thirds of all gun deaths are suicides. There, states with the highest gun ownership rates and loosest laws have the highest percentages of deaths this way.

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Women and Minorities are less than full citizens according to this weeks Supreme Court Rulings.

http://www.alternet.org/scotus-reactionary-decision-harris-v-quinn-new-version-infamous-dred-scott-decision

The court’s rationale in Harris, that the workers that provide essential services to the frail and elderly, a population set to explode as the Baby Boom ages, aren’t “full” public employees is best understood in the context of two other seminal moments when U.S. law makers stacked the deck for employers and against people of color and women trying to improve their lot in life by forming strong unions.

In 1935, the National Labor Relations Act, NLRA, the law which created the architecture for workers to form unions, passed the U.S. Congress. But in order to win enough votes for passage, Roosevelt and the laws proponents compromised with racist southern elements who demanded that domestic and agricultural workers, the two occupations dominated by Blacks and women, would be excluded from the provisions of the NLRA, thus condemning people of color and women to a second class status under our nation’s first national labor law. Essentially, white men in factories were given the right to form strong unions while people of color and women were formally held back.

RAPE: Target of the George Will Column speaks about her rape

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/02/target-of-george-will-column-shames-him-on-cnn-rape-isnt-a-privilege-for-anybody/

Lisa Sendrow, the survivor of sexual assault who George Will recently claimed was using her rape to get a “coveted status,” said on Wednesday that his “grotesque” Washington Post column could trigger traumatic reactions in other survivors.
In a piece early last month, Will used Sendrow’s rape to make his point about “the supposed campus epidemic of rape, a.k.a. ‘sexual assault.’”
Will asserted that when universities “make victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges, victims proliferate.”
“He made so many grotesque remarks about sexual assault,” Sendrow told CNN’s Kate Bolduan on Wednesday.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists President John C. Jennings released the following statements re: HOBBY LOBBY

http://www.acog.org/About-ACOG/News-Room/News-Releases/2014/ACOG-Statement-on-the-Supreme-Court-Decision-on-Hobby-Lobby-v-Sebelius

“The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (the College) is profoundly disappointed in today’s Supreme Court decision, which allows employers to impose their religious views on their female employees’ health care.
“This decision inappropriately allows employers to interfere in women’s health care decisions. All health care decisions – including decisions about contraception – should be made by a woman and her doctor, based on the patient’s needs and her current health. Her employer’s religious beliefs should not overrule her doctor’s advice.

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's words put into a dissent song.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/01/ruth-bader-ginsberg-dissent-song_n_5547310.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013&ir=Politics

We've found the song of the summer. Well, maybe.
On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that certain for-profit companies are not required to provide birth control coverage for their employees if it conflicts with their religious beliefs. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, however, disagreed with the ruling, writing a 35-page dissent clearly stating her support for a woman's right to contraception coverage under her employer's health plan. The sharply-worded (and badass) reproach has earned much support -- including its own song.
Singer/songwriter, Jonathan Mann, has put a tune to Ginsberg's scathing dissent, making us bop along to the chorus: “Now the court, I fear, has ventured into a minefield.” While Mann took a few liberties where lyrics are concerned, the song is undeniably catchy.

Kansas Tax Cuts - KILLING the Kansas Economy

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/cautionary-tale-brownbacks-failed-kansas-experiment

“In truth, Kansas is a cautionary tale, not a model,” the CBPP found. “As other states recover from the recent recession and turn toward the future, Kansas’ huge tax cuts have left that state’s schools and other public services stuck in the recession, and declining further – a serious threat to the state’s long-term economic vitality. Meanwhile, promises of immediate economic improvement have utterly failed to materialize.”

Paul Krugman added that while the Kansas experiment failed, everyone involved should have known in advance that the outcome was inevitable.

There’s an important lesson here – but it’s not what you think. Yes, the Kansas debacle shows that tax cuts don’t have magical powers, but we already knew that. The real lesson from Kansas is the enduring power of bad ideas, as long as those ideas serve the interests of the right people.

700,000 jobs to be cut by Republican Non-Action.

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/07/01/obama-blasts-congressional-republicans-putting-700000-jobs-chopping-block.html

Speaking at the Georgetown Waterfront in DC, President Obama blasted Congressional Republicans for putting 700,000 jobs on the chopping block.

And no, it’s not socialism or an imperial presidency, “It’s not crazy, it’s not socialism. It’s not the imperial presidency — no laws are broken,” the President said, lightly mocking Republicans’ for their ongoing conspiracy theories about him. He continued, “We’re just building roads and bridges like we’ve been doing for the last, I don’t know, 50, 100 years.”

Republican Conservative Masterbates in other people's cars. Juanita Jean speaks.

http://www.juanitajean.com/2014/07/01/fun-with-creepy-republicans-the-of-course-its-about-sex-edition/

His name is Jordan D. Haskins and he’s running Michigan’s 95th House District. He calls himself a member of “true red-blooded American conservatism.” Of course he does. He also masturbates in other peoples’ cars.

On four occasions between April of 2010 and January of 2011, Haskins broke into vehicles on public and private property, disconnected the ignition wires, then started the engine. As the wires snapped and spit sparks, Haskins would masturbate to climax in a sexualized ritual he calls “cranking.”

A woman spaks against the Corporate supreme court contraceptive decision WHY WOMEN AREN'T PEOPLE!

http://jezebel.com/why-women-arent-people-but-corporations-are-1598061808?utm_campaign=socialflow_jezebel_facebook&utm_source=jezebel_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=Mic+Check&utm_campaign=e83573c2d4-Mic_Report_7_01_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_51f2320b33-e83573c2d4-285125109

Earlier today, five men agreed that closely held corporations with anti-birth control religious beliefs cannot be required to provide contraceptive coverage to female employees. Corporations are people, my friend. Women? Not so much.

The decision to declare women Unpeople was a narrow one; the five men agreed that corporations (people) shouldn't be able to use Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby to justify discriminating against anyone except women (lesser people-ish entities), and won't be able to use it to deny other health care besides contraception. The same religious exemption to the Affordable Care Act that applies to nonprofit organizations also applies to for-profit companies controlled by a small group of people who think birth control is black magic. This ruling applies to whore pills only. Not to blood transfusions, AIDS retrovirals, vaccines, treating infections caused by getting a SATAN RULES tattoo with an infected needle at an unsafe tattoo parlor, antibiotics purchased to fight off a nasty case of the clap caught while raw dogging a stranger in a bar bathroom. Just birth control. No matter why a woman needs it.

Trend: Another person shot at a gun show. (He died.)

http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2014/06/in-what-is-now-becoming-tend-yet_30.html

I am just not feeling safer. At the entry point they have signs - NO LOADED GUNS - Why the sign if guns are so safe?

The Supreme Court Decisions - cartoon

http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2014/07/well-i-think-this-seems-very.html

The cartoon says it all.

Churches worry about Hobby Lobby fallout. - Rachel Maddow

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/01/rachel-maddow-christian-segregationists-would-be-confused-by-hobby-lobby-ruling/

There are some interesting historical and societal perspectives to consider with the Hobby Lobby decision. It looks like bad law actually.

5 best lines of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg's dissent.

http://aattp.org/here-are-the-top-5-best-lines-from-ginsburgs-dissent-on-hobby-lobby-atrocity/

4. For-profit corporations are not religious organizations: “Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.”

3. The ruling violates separation of church and state: “The exemption sought by Hobby Lobby and Conestoga would…deny legions of women who do not hold their employers’ beliefs access to contraceptive coverage”

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