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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Jul 3, 2014, 04:21 PM Jul 2014

Illinois Clergy Protest SCOTUS Ruling By Giving Out Condoms At Hobby Lobby

Source: TPM

CAITLIN MACNEAL – JULY 3, 2014, 2:24 PM EDT

A reverend in Illinois organized a demonstration to hand out condoms outside of a local Hobby Lobby store in order to protest the Supreme Court's ruling on contraception, the Daily Herald reported.

Rev. Mark Winters of the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Naperville, Ill., said it started out as a joke in a Facebook, but after he got a great response, he decided to organize a protest.

The group of demonstrators stood outside the store to hand out condoms donated by Planned Parenthood.

Winters told the Daily Herald that he wanted the protest to show that not all Christians oppose birth control. He also said he hoped to get people to question whether the Supreme Court's decision was fair to Hobby Lobby employees' religious freedom.

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randys1

(16,286 posts)
1. Fantastic, but what they should be handing out are IUD's...
Thu Jul 3, 2014, 04:27 PM
Jul 2014

I suppose they would have to hand out gift cards for a free IUD as I assume they have to be made to order etc...

Hobby Lobby is celebrating their victory allowing them to run their employees lives 24 hours a day, as if they were slaves, sort of.

Yeah, we know where all this shit originates.

NutmegYankee

(16,178 posts)
10. Now that is awesome.
Thu Jul 3, 2014, 06:51 PM
Jul 2014

Lets shove that rancid court decision in favor of anti-choice terrorists right back down their throats, LOL!

valerief

(53,235 posts)
14. It proves a point. That's what these activist justices and their business owners are
Fri Jul 4, 2014, 09:29 AM
Jul 2014

asking for. Women will get pregnant, the oligarchs chip away all abortion laws, and coat hangers are the next step.

marshall

(6,661 posts)
15. It would have been more appropriate
Sun Jul 6, 2014, 08:21 AM
Jul 2014

Hobby Lobby's insurance actually supports the use of condoms (both male and female) as well as more than a dozen other birth control products. It is four products, including the so called "morning after" pill that they refuse to support.

valerief

(53,235 posts)
18. I think you're on the wrong site, if you don't understand the slippery slope of
Sun Jul 6, 2014, 11:47 AM
Jul 2014

the decision. If you read DU, you'll know about HL not wanting doctors to discuss birth control and how HL wants to opt out of the federal contractors non-discrimination requirement. And that's just the start. But then, maybe you don't read DU enough. And maybe you should.

Buh-bye. You're on Ignore now.

24601

(3,940 posts)
17. Has HL thanked him for driving business to the store and holding their costs down? HL has no
Sun Jul 6, 2014, 10:27 AM
Jul 2014

problem with condoms or 16 of the 20 forms of female contraception in the HHS regulation.

Justice

(7,182 posts)
19. But the HL case resulted in SC saying companies may cut ALL contraception from health plans
Sun Jul 6, 2014, 02:03 PM
Jul 2014

So for example, Eden Foods is doing just that.

marshall

(6,661 posts)
20. They are going beyond even that
Mon Jul 7, 2014, 02:04 AM
Jul 2014

No smoking cessation drugs, fertility treatment, weight loss medication, etc.-- none of wht is called "lifestyle drugs" (which includes Viagra).

Eden and places like it are where the protests ought to be, although I suppose they aren't as big as HL. The SC has certainly set up,a slippery slope. And with the coat savings of not having to cover all treatments, I suspect many of these companies will have a sudden conversion. Better to hold their feet to the fire now.

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