The 8 Best Lines From Ginsburg's Dissent on the Hobby Lobby Contraception Decision

[Snarkoleptic]

On Monday, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg penned a blistering dissent to the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling that the government can't require certain employers to provide insurance coverage for methods of birth control and emergency contraception that conflict with their religious beliefs. Ginsburg wrote that, "in a decision of startling breadth," five of her male colleagues would allow corporations to opt out of almost any law "they judge incompatible with their sincerely held religious beliefs."

"The exemption sought by Hobby Lobby and Conestoga would...deny legions of women who do not hold their employers’ beliefs access to contraceptive coverage."
"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."

"Any decision to use contraceptives made by a woman covered under Hobby Lobby’s or Conestoga’s plan will not be propelled by the Government, it will be the woman’s autonomous choice, informed by the physician she consults."

"It bears note in this regard that the cost of an IUD is nearly equivalent to a month’s full-time pay for workers earning the minimum wage."

More at link-
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/best-lines-hobby-lobby-decision

[Scuba]

1. 9.

[Snarkoleptic]

2. This is a compelling question as well...

"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); and vaccinations[?]...Not much help there for the lower courts bound by today’s decision."

(from the same article)

[Politicub]

3. I believe the answer is yes

Plus denying service to LGBT people and whoever else business owners are biased against. A-ok in America now.

[Snarkoleptic]

4. May I suggest all religiously unaffiliated DUers become ordained ministers

of the Universal Life Church?


Doing so will allow us equal protection under the law.

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http://www.ulchq.com/ordination.htm

[RoccoR5955]

6. I am already an ordained minister

of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Since Friday is our Holy Day, and our sacrament is getting drunk, I should not get a DWI for driving drunk on any Friday. To do so would violate my 1st Amendment right.

May you all be touched by His noodly appendages.

Arrgh, and R'amen!


Sound silly? So does the Supremes Court decision!

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

7. My wife and I were married 45 years ago by an Universal Life Church Minister

Yes, we are one.

[EEO]

5. They opened a massive can of worms with this ruling...

... man eating money grubbing corporation worms.

[Ino]

8. Hobby Lobby should have to prove their beliefs "sincerely held"

And I think their dealings with China and some of their investments show those beliefs are only skin-deep lip service. They should have to practice what they preach in ALL areas.