The reality is that the purpose is to punish the federal government for not adhering to Catholic and evangelicals' religious edicts
Congressional Republicans Empower Evangelicals To Sue Governments For Enforcing Law
Hobby Lobby Owners Under Investigation for Illegally Acquiring Stolen Artifacts
The Green Family, owners of Hobby Lobby, if guilty, would seem to have one set of morals for others, and none for themselves
Appeals Court Thwarts Evangelical Pharmacists’ Objections To Filling Prescriptions
The ruling and the assertion that a religious fanatic is treated the same as a secular person will not sit well with theocrats.
With A Stroke Of His Pen, President Obama Renders Hobby Lobby Ruling Obsolete
According to the Catholic justices' ruling, the Obama Administration 'must' provide an accommodation for "religious" for-profit corporations and on Friday, President Obama did just that in response to the High Court's decision. In fact, what President Obama did was effectively neuter the Hobby Lobby ruling and ensure that all women, even those employed by 'religious corporations,' will still have birth control covered at no cost to them; even if their evangelical employers object and refuse to provide it.
Religious House Republicans Plan To Deny Contraception Access to 4.6 Million Women
There is no other reason for Republicans to try defunding Title X than denying family planning services and contraception from women.
Christian Counseling and Homeschool Program Embraced By Duggars Funded By Hobby Lobby
Hobby Lobby has, for years, provided substantial financial support to Bill Gothard, the Christian fundamentalist who founded the ATI homeschool program and the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP). IBLP is the Christian sexual treatment center the Quiverfull Duggars sent their son Josh to for "Christian sexual counseling."
Republicans Admit Hobby Lobby Ruling Is Religious Tyranny Meant to Control Women
Republicans claim their abominable legislation overturning a Washington D.C. anti-discrimination statute that prohibited religious employers from punishing women who use birth control, family planning services, or abortion services was to protect employers' religious liberty according to the Hobby Lobby ruling. However, they revealed the legislation is about using religious tyranny to control women.
Satanists Use Hobby Lobby Religious Freedom To Defend Missouri Women
This time around, the subject is once again abortion and instead of New York, Missouri Satanists are assisting a woman seeking a religious exemption from Missouri's religious 72-hour abortion waiting period because the Christian law violates the Satanist's "deeply held beliefs about bodily autonomy;" something Christian fanatics cannot comprehend or countenance for any woman.
After Voting to Strip it From DC Residents, Boehner Claims to Champion Religious Freedom
"America was founded on the principle of religious freedom." It's just a shame he thinks only corporations have that freedom
Hobby Lobby II Case Could Impose Right Wing Evangelical Tyranny On Health Insurers
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito opened a Pandora's box that has the potential to give some corporations the right to impose their "deeply held" religious objections to birth control on other corporations.
Hobby Lobby Ruling Opened Floodgates For Indiana Discrimination Law
Americans are witnessing the profound and dangerous impact of the High Court's Hobby Lobby decision to dismantle the 1st Amendment's religious clauses and exempt religious devotee's from adhering to state and federal laws.
The Last Word On The California Lawyer Gunning For Gays
I still believe there are points to be made about the issue of California attorney, Matthew Gregory McLaughlin and his "Sodomite Suppression Act" (SSA).
The Real Unseen Danger of Indiana’s Legal Discrimination Law
It is why although the law appears only to target the LGBT community and allow the 'faithful' to legally punish same-sex marriage partners by refusing to hire, serve, or provide them with medical care, it is important to remember there is no mention of gays in the law.
California Attorney-General Fights To Void Deadly Anti-Gay Ballot Initiative
The far right's war on the LGBT community took a variety of turns this week.
Corporations Suddenly Don’t Have Religious Freedom if They Support Marriage Equality
Corporations apparently have religious freedom if they are against contraception, but they have no right to speak up about marriage equality
On The Roe v. Wade Anniversary A March To Ban Contraception
Today is the anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade ruling giving women the right to choose when they give birth and, like every year for over two decades, religious fanatics will protest the landmark decision. Their contention is that patriarchs in Catholic Church, not women, own the right to make reproductive choices for American women.
Bishops Join GOP Drive To Make Women Celibate Or Birth Machines
American Catholic bishops are taking advantage of the power bestowed on them by the conservative Catholics on the Supreme Court in the Hobby Lobby ruling. As is typical of the bishops, their aim is controlling American women and forcing them to either become celibate or perpetual birthing machines.
In 2014 America Abandoned Its Constitution And Devolved Into a Fascist Theocracy
Republicans in state after state spent the past year hastily passing legislation abolishing other Americans' 14th Amendment rights
The Year of Intolerant Liberalism? Not so Much
A Religious Right list of 33 Examples of Intolerant Liberalism in 2014 turns out (surprise!) to be examples of conservative intolerance
President Obama Preserved Women’s Reproductive Rights In Passing the CRomnibus
The recent appropriations bill known as the CRomnibus could have been a lot worse for women's reproductive rights and it is very fortunate for women that Democrats and President Obama succeeded in getting it passed.
