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BREAKING: The Supreme Court just ruled that bosses can deny employees coverage of birth control. #NotMyBossBusiness pic.twitter.com/iyr4ksGUrw
— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) June 30, 2014
As usual, conservative Twitter appeared to inhabit an entirely different universe than the one that the left is a part of:All of the people who voted in favour of #HobbyLobby have one thing in common and it's not a vagina. #SCOTUS pic.twitter.com/IG8vf93bm3
— Elizabeth Plank (@feministabulous) June 30, 2014
Professional advocates were similarly split. Atheists, of course, were upset; Amanda Metskas, the president of the Secular Coalition for America, said in a statement that “this is a sad day for anyone who believes in true religious freedom… This decision allows for-profit business owners to impose their religious preferences and practices on their employees, leaving the religious freedom of millions of Americans at the mercy of their individual employers.” In a similarly worded statement that shows how “religious freedom” means a lot of different things to different people, Lori Windham, an attorney for Hobby Lobby, said that “this is a landmark decision for religious freedom. The Supreme Court recognized that Americans do not lose their religious freedom when they run a family business.”My religion trumps your “right” to employer subsidized consequence free sex.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) June 30, 2014
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In fact, some Catholics have filed lawsuits because they are opposed to the idea Alito endorses, saying they “cannot execute the form because they cannot deputize a third party to sin on their behalf.” And if the Greens’ beliefs are strong enough that the law needs to find a way to work around them, what about those of the Catholics? Won’t the Supreme Court, at some point, have to rule what definition of sin is valid? That’s rather worrying, as Ginsburg points out in her dissent."Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,' the very risk the [Constitution's] Establishment Clause was designed to preclude," she writes. “The court, I fear, has ventured into a minefield."Follow Harry Cheadle on Twitter.So… employers will just pay for contraception via taxes, and that's ok. Got it.
— Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) June 30, 2014
