Posted on 07/03/2014 12:49:23 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Out actor George Takei has criticized a Supreme Court decision declaring that some for-profit companies may block their employees' access to certain birth control methods.
Hobby Lobby challenged the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) requirement that insurance health plans include coverage for FDA-approved contraception, arguing that the law violates the company's religious freedom.
“In this case, the owners happen to be deeply Christian; one wonders whether the case would have come out differently if a Muslim-run chain business attempted to impose Sharia law on its employees,” Takei said in a blog post. “As many have pointed out, Hobby Lobby is the same company that invests in Pfizer and Teva Pharmaceuticals, makers of abortion inducing-drugs and the morning after pill. It also buys most of its inventory from China, where forced abortions are common. The hypocrisy is galling.”
“Hobby Lobby is not a church. It's a business – and a big one at that. Businesses must and should be required to comply with neutrally crafted laws of general applicability. Your boss should not have a say over your healthcare. Once the law starts permitting exceptions based on 'sincerely held religious beliefs' there's no end to the mischief and discrimination that will ensue. Indeed, this is the same logic that certain restaurants and hotels have been trying to deploy to allow proprietors to refuse service to gay couples.”
Takei urged readers to boycott the national craft store chain.
“While we work to overturn this decision by legislation, people of good conscious should BOYCOTT any for-profit business, including Hobby Lobby, which chooses to impose its religious beliefs on its employees. The only way such companies ever learn to treat people with decency and tolerance is to hit them where it counts – in their pocketbooks. I won't be shopping there, and women everywhere should exercise their right of protest and refuse to shop there as well,” Takei said.
(George WHO?)
Leni
besides religious bigotry, can anyone tell me why the fags care about this?
Hey Sulu, if it was a Muslim organization, they’d be trying to behead you.
Another Regressive Rat misses the root cause.
Hobby Lobby offers 16 of the 20 birth control methods on the market.
They have have 20 forms of birth control on the market to satisfy the divergent and varied needs of free individuals. Every person is unique, and only that person understands and determines which product is best for there personal situation.
The Government wants to impose, by force, a standard solution onto a free people.
The vast majority will have a problem with the Government “solution”.
Government is not the solution, Government is the Problem
one wonders whether the case would have come out differently if a Muslim-run chain business attempted to impose Sharia law on its employees...
Of course, because Sharia dissenters are quickly silenced when their head is separated from their body at the neck
Observant Jews don’t work on Saturday, George, They impose this shutdown on all employees, contractors and customers. File a lawsuit, schmuck.
Nobody should be forced to pay for an abortion. The fascists think the state has ultimate power as was shown in Star Trek.
Pray America wakes up
George his happy to impose gay on everybody
This shows the ludicrousness of liberals.
A self-declared homo complaining about not getting free abortion pills from Hobby Lobby, where he doesn't work.
You cant get other men knocked up George(except maybe with HIV) , nature doesn't work that way. .
Melissa Harris Perry calls this ‘Being a good ally’
George, it’s not nice to talk when chewing a gay whopper.
No one is trying to impose Christianity on their employees - the business, which provides health care as part of their employee's compensation, successfully made the case that the ACA's mandates did not override the protections in the RFRA (signed by Clinton, by the way) that require to government to show both that they have a compelling public interest and that they're using the least possible infringing method of attaining that interest.
If a Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, American Indian, etc., owner wanted to object to any of the ACA's provisions on religious grounds, the situation would be exactly the same, and the ruling enforces that.
I don’t buy cigarettes for my adult daughter because I disapprove of smoking, but I give her money, I shop at some stores that sell cigarettes, and who knows what’s in the mutual funds at my 401k - quite possibly some tobacco firms. Does that make me a hypocrite?
Who gives a fiddly duck what queers think about birth control, it’s not like they will ever need any form of it, especially not abortion. The only reason mr. oh my, opens his mouth is to denigrate Christianity, oh and to ................
“You cant get other men knocked up George(except maybe with HIV) , nature doesn’t work that way. .”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WELCOME TO GAY NATION!!!
"You mean butt babies aren't real? Set phasers to sad. ;-("
Ha! Ha! Ha!
I’d say post that on Takei’s Facebook page, but it’d never be seen.
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