A chance to air their nostalgia
Emily Bazelon at Slate takes a look at some of the more…eccentric far-right arguments in the Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood briefs against the Obamacare rule that employers must provide contraception...
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Live in 45 minutes
The legal staff at American Atheists is doing a live ask questions thing about the Hobby Lobby ruling in 50 minutes from now, 7 pm Eastern time, 4 my time, midnight UK time. Update: here is the video...
View ArticleThe roots of Hobby Lobby
Soraya has commentary at Time magazine. In the practice of many religions, girls’ and women’s relationship to the divine are mediated, in strictly binary terms, by men: their speech, their ways of...
View ArticleGuest post: It’s not about “corporate personhood”
Originally a comment by the philosophical primate on The American Humanist Association comments. I wish people would quit talking about this case in terms of “corporate rights” and “corporate...
View ArticleCongress should narrow RFRA
The Washington Post gives its (as it were corporate) view of the Hobby Lobby ruling and what it implies. When business owners enter the public marketplace, they should expect to follow laws with which...
View ArticleOne law
From the White House press briefing yesterday; the first question was about the Hobby Lobby ruling. The Supreme Court ruled today that some bosses can now withhold contraceptive care from their...
View ArticleHow did we get here?
So now I’m trying to work my way back through the history of RFRA, to try to figure out why it had so much support, from the left as well as the right. The ACLU has a relevant article on its site…but...
View ArticleUSCCB triumphans
Let’s have a blast from the past: Katha Pollitt in the Nation in December 2011. Who matters more to President Obama, 271 Catholic bishops or millions upon millions of sexually active Catholic women who...
View ArticleThe theocrats get started
More nostalgia – May 21 2012 when the bishops announced their lawsuit against the administration. Catholic News Service was there, slavering. The Archdiocese of New York, headed by Cardinal Timothy...
View ArticleWithout meaningful consideration of the impact on their employees
Marci Hamilton on the Hobby Lobby ruling. It is simply a fact that five male Catholic Supreme Court Justices have now transformed what is already a bad law into a truly dangerous one, all for the...
View ArticleBishops and justices working together
More brilliant commentary on Hobby Lobby, this from Leslie Griffin, who co-blogs with Marci Hamilton, under the banner Advocating for religious liberty, women’s rights and children’s rights By...
View ArticleMaking them complicit
And of course just as everyone predicted, Hobby Lobby is only the beginning. The camel is halfway into the tent already, and there’s a whole long line of camels streaming toward the tent even now. In a...
View ArticleNever mind what the women think
Getting sick of Hobby Lobby? You know how it is – there are some subjects I’ll just keep poking at for days. Marcia Greenberger, co-president of the National Women’s Law Center, has a post at Scotus...
View ArticleA helps B to accomplish an external act by an act that is not sinful
Another article by Leslie Griffin on the Supremes and Catholic moral theology. There’s some overlap with the article I posted about yesterday. I never expected to see Father Henry Davis’s Moral and...
View ArticleOh, the part about limited scope? Just kidding.
Here’s a piece of news I missed, despite (I thought) paying close attention: Less than a day after the United States Supreme Court issued its divisive ruling on Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, it has already...
View ArticleRequiring that we become complicit in evil
Let’s go back to February 2012 for a sample of the rhetoric used by the Catholic theocrats to demand special exemptions from ordinary secular laws. A Catholic priest at the top of Human Life...
View ArticleThey can’t be trusted
Exactly. David Ropeik writes today July 5 at Psychology Today that the theocratic Supremes can’t be trusted, because they’re dishonest. Yes they are. …more and more, trust in the most important part of...
View ArticleSupreme pants on fire
Well, at least I have confirmation that I wasn’t exaggerating yesterday when I said Alito lied in the Hobby Lobby ruling. Dahlia Lithwick and Sonja West at Slate say the same thing. They say it with...
View ArticleThe most religious and most conservative first-world nation
Lisa Bloom explains lucidly in the Washington Post what is so radical about the Hobby Lobby ruling. The U.S. is the most religious and most conservative first-world nation, and believers have tried to...
View ArticleOh dear, did you hurt your hand?
The National Women’s Law Center has a great, fierce analysis of the biases of the Evil Five in the Hobby Lobby ruling on its blog. Summary: Y U ignore women, Evil Five? The majority opinion in Hobby...
View ArticleEven if they worked for businesses that had religious objections
The NY Times reports on this new bill, which (of course) preserves all the exemptions Obama already gave away to the god-botherers. Democrats in Congress said Tuesday that they had developed...
View ArticleThe Obama administration’s initial, parsimonious exemption
This is a depressing story, which I didn’t know about – the role of liberal columnists in stoking the fires of rage about the “religious exemption” from the ACA birth control mandate. Patricia Miller...
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