So couples that use the rhythm method are perverted? Because that method is a means of contraception.
Condoms are also used to stop the spread of disease and are not limited only to contraception. A male with a vasectomy or a woman unable to conceive may still opt that condoms be used to minimize risk of an STD. You may consider such people to be perverted but such people are not barred to buy contraceptive and safe sex products in stores. Stores do not police the sexual morality of persons buying contraceptive or safe sex products.
Why is Hobby Lobby fighting on the basis of First Amendment considerations? Before Obamacare, companies could just say no, contraceptives and safe sex products are in the category of personal lifestyle choices and personal responsibility but now that Obama’s minions have forced this on everyone, Hobby Lobby can’t just say ‘no’; they need to say ‘encroachment on free exercise of religion’. But the point is that Obamacare and its HHS mandate are not ***necessarily*** an attack on religious beliefs, because most Americans, religious or not, believe in personal responsibility.
HHS requires Hobby Lobby to provide contraceptive products to its employees and Hobby Lobby refuses but this refusal does not prevent these employees from accessing such products in stores. Prior to the HHS mandate there was never any distinct group suing stores for denial of contraceptive or safe sex products or suing companies similarly.
Those who use contraception are not a group that can plead discrimination and force court rulings based on discriminating behavior. The Hobby Lobby case is not about discrimination, it is about the encroachment of a federal government insurance mandate. Whereas, homosexuals are suing cake shops over state level discrimination.
Wedding services are much more intimate and unique to the wedding particulars. Wedding service providers create as art the wedding cakes, floral arrangements, church and reception decorating, wedding cards and many of not most of wedding service providers are adherents to biblical teaching.
Refusing to make a wedding cake to a same-sex couple is barring professional cake making wedding services to same-sex couples by those that are obedient to their faith and by those whose moral codes are otherwise repulsed by the notion of same-sex marriage. Such refusals are a social expression of how society views homosexuality. It has nothing to do with HHS mandated insurance coverage.
The issue of coverage for contraception is diffuse whereas the issue of homosexual perversion is narrowly focused. Contraception is about insurance coverage for lifestyle choices and practices. It is no different than dental coverage and most employers do not offer or offer very little coverage on dental because the vast number of dental health conditions are caused by poor individual practices. Such coverage conditions fall under personal responsibility. These personal responsibility issues do not attack the Church. Whereas, homosexual perversion does attack the Church through the courts.
Denial of contraception coverage affects all people of both genders, of all adult ages, of any ethnicity, of any sexual orientation and so on; this denial does not discriminate. However, refusing wedding cakes is focused on one group and one group only; homosexuals. (It’s conceivable that Satan worshipers could be denied wedding services, but there is no history of the courts being used to coerce wedding service providers to provide services to Satan).
There is only one group of sexual perverts that uses the courts to force its will on wedding cake makers, wedding florists, B&B honeymoon suites, etc. This group would be homosexuals.
Contraception is better than abortion, cheaper than abortion too. It’s not the best, but if used in proper restraint, it can make things a little safe. As for me, there is, whether the politically correct admit it or not, and option to have sex. The rare exception to this is rape. If rape does occur, the rapist should be tried and punished severely according to the law. I disagree with what Obamacare is doing given the cost of contraceptives in the first place, there not as important as life-saving surgery, which is far more costly, and important to cover. I also despise Obamacare because it does nothing to relieve the recent VA negligence schedule. If we look at the ACA, it is not socialized medicine because it profoundly neglects what most nations got into socialized medicine in the first place for: Caring for their sick and disabled war veterans, Britain and France had a lot more than we did after WWI and WWII, and is a main reason why they got into those programs. Given the situation at the VA, and Obama’s bald-faced lying about it, the ACA is nothing like the healthcare that those European Nations have, it’s about upholding the big health insurance companies, mandating that you get their insurance, and pretty much grinding the smaller ones under the heels of the bigger ones. Obama is a big business lover, and the liberal cause is a bunch of hypocrisy, or a classic stage act that pretends to be for the little people.