Hobby Lobby: FRC says get on your knees
I recently signed up for email alerts from the FRC (Family Research Council) under a non de plume (or “nom de rude” as others might say). The FRC is a theocratic, reactionary, right-wing, group. The type of group that Saint Ronald Reagan sucked up to and the cause of my defection from the Republican party.
Yesterday they sent me an email urging me to tell my US senators to
oppose a bill that would address the travesty that is the SCOTUS ruling on the Hobby Lobby case:
The Senate plans to vote as early as Tuesday on a bill offered by Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) that would “overturn” the Supreme Court’s ruling in Hobby Lobby and force all private and employer based healthcare plans to cover contraceptives, drugs which can destroy a human embryo and sterilization services, without copay—or face crippling fines.
The Supreme Court correctly held that the HHS mandate violates the free exercise rights of family businesses like Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties, who do not want to violate their conscience in order to earn a living. But that hasn’t stopped Senator Murray, pushed by radical groups like NARAL, Planned Parenthood and National Women’s Law Center, to demand religious American’s bow to their pro-abortion agenda.
But this bill is not only anti-religious and anti-constitutional—its anti-woman!
Nearly one-third of the business plaintiffs in these cases calling the HHS mandate on religious liberty grounds are women. In addition, women judges have voted to halt implementation of the mandate 24 times. In only 15 cases have they voted in favor of the employer mandate. Finally, more women oppose the mandate than support it in poll after poll across the United States.
How can Senator Murray and this bill’s supporters claim to be supporting women when they are directly opposing the sincerely held religious beliefs of so many American women?
Please urge your Senators to oppose the misleadingly titled “Protect Women’s Health From Corporate Interference Act of 2014.” This discriminatory bill runs contrary to the values Americans hold dear and the ruling the Supreme Court handed down earlier this month.
Notice the logical fallacies and ridiculous conclusions. For example, the alleged fact (no citations by FRC) that more female judges have “voted” to oppose the ACA. Not the contraception mandate but the entire ACA. Furthermore, what the heck does it mean for a judge to “vote” on the matter? Did they rule against the government on a case brought before them? Do they mean that those judges voted in an election? Heck if I can tell from that email. Not to mention that a cornerstone of our constitution is to guard against the tyranny of the majority by protecting the rights of the minority.
I didn’t even have to read Senator Patty Murray’s bill. The fact that the FRC is against it is sufficient for me to send the following message to my US senators and representative:
I expect you to support the bill introduced by Senator Patty
Murray titled “Protect Women’s Health From Corporate
Interference Act of 2014.” I admit that I know nothing about
the bills particulars. But the fact I received an email from
the FRC (Family Research Council) expressing outrage for the
bill is all I need to know. The theocrats in this country
need to be stopped before they return us to the European
Dark Ages.