Quote: (06-30-2014 01:44 PM)Dr. Howard Wrote:
This is interesting. They were allowed to invoke religious freedom on their business...it reminds me of the gay cake baking people, could they have abstained from the gay cakes if they were claiming to be a christian company?
What if this extends further, ie could you claim some sort of religious freedom that women shouldn't work outside of the home to have a company policy that you only hire men?
You shouldn't even have to hide behind religious freedom, but I suppose religious freedom still means something to the Supreme Court.
The funny thing about this to me is all of the shrieking done by the usual suspects about how this is an anti women ruling blah blah blah. Nothing has changed with respect to the availability of contraceptives. If you want to buy contraceptives, you can, just as you could before. All that was ruled was that an employer can't be forced to pay for contraceptives.
The outrage is hypocritical. You can't on one hand scream MY BODY MY RULES NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS, and then
force someone else to provide you with something, which then makes it precisely their business. I suspect that underneath it all the advocates believe that the contraceptives they feel entitled to are free, and thus this ruling is depriving them of something. That would be a misunderstanding of the economics of the situation, because their employers, should they be forced to buy contraceptives, would most likely be taking that out of the compensation of their workers. Which brings up a different kettle of fish as you'd then be penalizing anyone who didnt need or want contraceptives in order to subsidize those who do.
Even if you're socially liberal on these issues, at some point the special interest groups are going to start losing support. Today most people accepting, but that isn't enough. You have to be an active participant whether you want to or not, otherwise you're discriminating. Look at the True Blood guy. Apparently he's a homophobe now because he is uncomfortable partaking in gay love scenes. At some point even the most tree hugging hippy will get tired of it.