Tuesday, July 01, 2014

Breaking My Own Rule - Just This Once

Never try to teach a pig to sing.  It frustrates you and annoys the pig.
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But I break my own rule here for a moment.  The Fox News Editorial on the Hobby Lobby Case is so spectacularly incorrect and aggressively false, one must try to teach the pig to sing, now matter how frustrating to myself.
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To quote Julie Andrews, "Let's start at the very beginning..."
Monday’s ruling in the case of Sebelius vs. Hobby Lobby is an important victory for religious liberty for people of all faiths, regardless of what secularists will argue in their criticism of the Supreme Court’s decision. Liberals have tried to obfuscate the real issue in the case by insisting that it was about the merits of employer-mandated healthcare, the propriety of contraception, or the right of a woman to have an abortion. 
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First, "secularists" and "liberals" aren't the same thing.  There are many Christina Liberals.  That guy who said give the money to the poor - that's pretty liberal and I think Jesus was probably a Christian (Mark 10:21-22 Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said, "You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me." When he heard this, he was shocked and went away grieving, for he had many possessions. )


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Second, we liberals didn't say any of the shit you are calling out.  We said that a "Corporation" comes with benefits (like protecting its owners and shareholders) and also that comes responsibilities - liking following the law.  You don't get to pick and choose what laws you like like some hippie at a love-fest.
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This is a jewel...
 If the Supreme Court had ruled against Hobby Lobby Monday and upheld the Obama administration’s argument, they would have been saying, “You are free to be pro-life in your home or church, but on Monday morning when you go to work you have to be pro-abortion.”
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A corporation doesn't have a "home life".  A corporation doesn't go to church.  A corporation - even a "closely held" one - does't "...Go back to work on Monday".   And no one asked a corporation to be pro-abortion.  A corporation is required to follow the laws of the land - no wait, make that WAS required to follow the laws.  Those laws bring benefits and responsibilities, but apparently "conservatives" or at least the opinion of Fox news is that conservatives get to choose which laws they want to follow.
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I could go on, but I feel myself getting frustrated and the pig annoyed.