HuffPo Writer's Absurd View of Hobby Lobby Decision
By Gina Miller
RenewAmerica.Com
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By now, you know that the God-hating Left has thrown
itself on the ground in fits over the Supreme
Court's modest Hobby Lobby decision. Last week, the
Court, by a scary-thin, one-vote margin, simply
affirmed that Christian business owners cannot be
forced to pay for abortion-inducing drugs in their
employee "health" insurance policies. Judging by the
Left's nonsensical, hysterical reaction to the
decision, you would think the end of all things had
come. Illustrating this, we have seen a flood of
absurd, lying reactions out of everyone from Hillary
Clinton to the poster child for taxpayer-funded
contraception, Sandra Fluke, to
Barack Obama (or
whatever his name is).
In the Huffington Post, I just read one of the most
solidly ridiculous responses to the Court's decision
that I have seen. The writer is a guy named Lincoln
Mitchell, and in his piece titled, "How
Hobby Lobby Undermines All Americans' Freedom,"
he employs pretty much every lie and stupid
speculation you can imagine.
He opens the piece with this:
The Supreme Court's recent decision in the Hobby
Lobby case demonstrates that the court, at least the
five justices who voted in favor of Hobby Lobby, has
little concern for, and probably little
understanding of, women's health care. By ruling
that corporations, on the grounds of the alleged
religious views of their owners, can deny women
access to some forms of contraception, the court set
a horrible precedent that if followed will endanger
the health and lives of many American women.
Um, what? Women's health care? What health care?
What do abortifacients have to do with the health
care of anyone? This decision had nothing to
do with anyone's "health care." It only had to do
with our fundamental, God-given freedoms of religion
and conscience, which lunatics on the Left despise.
Further, if you want to talk about "health care,"
you might want to take a look at
how dangerous those
abortifacient drugs are to women's health
(not to mention the health of the tiny, pre-born
baby). While obtusely ignoring what the Hobby Lobby
decision was truly about, Mitchell repeats the bogus
"women's health care" theme throughout his
fallacy-laden piece.
Mitchell also lies when he states this ruling
results in companies denying women access to some
forms of contraception. No one is denying women
access to anything, and these tools of the Left
know it! They are enraged that the Court has not
quite gone full-bore-commie on us, but instead
acknowledged Americans are still (somewhat) free to
conduct their businesses according to their
conscience. Leftists are furious that the devils in
Washington are not yet allowed to completely squash
the freedom of Christians by forcing them to pay for
poison pills that kill pre-born babies and endanger
the health – and in some cases, even the lives – of
the women who take them.
Need I remind you that this tyrannical mandate for
employer-provided abortion and contraception
coverage was illegally inserted in the
already-unconstitutional Obamacare law after it was
crookedly passed by Congress? In the history of our
nation, there has been no such mandate, and the last
I checked, women were free then, as they are now, to
access whatever abortion drugs and contraception
they like. But, that's not the point, is it? The
point is that religious freedom was tepidly upheld,
and that is unacceptable to the hard Left.
Mitchell continues his dissembling of the meaning of
the Hobby Lobby decision:
The Republican Party has long, if not always
sincerely, repeated a mantra of individual freedom,
but the Hobby Lobby decision, in which all five
justices who formed the majority were appointed by
Republican presidents, undermines that. A central
belief of all Republican politicians is that
Americans should have a right to do what they want
with, and keep as much as possible of, their
hard-earned money. The Supreme Court made a big move
against that idea this week, but the outrage from
the Republican side has been absent.
Of course, "outrage from the Republican side has
been absent," Mr. Mitchell, because what you just
wrote about the decision is a lie. The decision
undermines nothing except one aspect of
overreach from this hideous monster of a federal
government. No American citizen's individual
freedoms have been curtailed at all, but rather,
they have been upheld by the Court.
As for Americans keeping as much of their
hard-earned money as possible, what about American
business owners, who happen to possess a conscience,
not wanting to spend their hard-earned money
to pay for killing tiny, pre-born babies? Hmm?
Continuing with his leftist template talking points,
Mitchell writes:
The Hobby Lobby decision is about women's health
care and individual freedom, but it is also another
sign of the consolidation of power by big
corporations in the U.S. It is now legal for
corporations to deny workers important medical
services, and redefine their compensation packages,
simply because, religious claims aside, they want
to.
Lies! Again, this decision is not about
"women's health care." It is about religious
liberty. The lies these leftists are willing to tell
grow more outrageous each day under this God-hating
administration that is drunk on its own lawless
power. Mitchell's absurd statement that "it is now
legal for corporations to deny workers important
medical services" is so utterly preposterous, it
almost deserves no response. The sick thing is that
these leftist loons are vomiting these same lies
over and over again, in the time-tested method of
pounding a big lie long enough until it is perceived
as "truth" in the minds of far too many uncritical
thinkers among us. So, the lies must be refuted.
There were absolutely no "important medical
services" involved in the Hobby Lobby case. The case
was not about "medical services" at all. It was
only about the federal government wrongly
dictating the violation of conscience of the
American people. The core of why this decision has
people like Lincoln Mitchell waxing apoplectic is
that leftists are working like mad to destroy
Americans' God-given freedoms, and any setback to
that evil goal, however slight, enrages them. Of
course, one sure-fire way to know if something is
good or bad for America is to judge the way leftists
react to it. If they hate it, as they do the Hobby
Lobby decision, then it's probably good for freedom,
but if they love it, then it likely means tyranny.