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In reply to the discussion: why I suspect reaction to Hobby Lobby is somewhat hair-on-fire [View all]ljm2002
(10,751 posts)...but I came of age when birth control had only just been approved for non-married women, and when women could not get safe and legal abortions. We fought long and hard for our rights, only to see a bunch of ideologues throw them right out the window. Because, you know, it's just wimmin folk.
This decision was more significant than Obama's precisely because this is the Supreme Court we are talking about. The Supreme Court of the land said that a BUSINESS has BELIEFS and can OPT OUT of laws that don't comport with those beliefs. Well, but ONLY if the beliefs concern wimmin folk and those icky reproductive issues. We don't want anyone thinking this decision sets a PRECEDENT or anything. Goodness gracious no! Why the MIC would be out of business if we allowed people to opt out of taxes based on their own "sincerely held beliefs".
This is a Big. Fucking. Deal.
Yes it is.