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6 Stupid Arguments About Hobby Lobby From Dumb Liberals

Thanks to the wonder of the Internet, we have been given a wealth of riches when it comes to stupid arguments from stupid people. Here are the 6 dumbest arguments from dumb liberals about the Hobby Lobby decision.

1) The Supreme Court is denying access to birth control.

Can't believe we live in a world where we'd even consider letting big corps deny women access to basic care based on vague moral objections.

— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) June 30, 2014

Disturbed by the Supreme Court's decision to allow bosses to deny access to contraceptive care, including birth control. #notmybossbusiness

— Sean Eldridge (@SeanEldridge) June 30, 2014

Any day now, #SupremeCourt decides whether corporations can deny women access to contraception. http://t.co/xZ247dqtMf

— Sandra Fluke (@SandraFluke) June 27, 2014

Right. Because nothing “denies access” like paying employees a wage that they can then use to buy whatever they want.

I'm kind of hungry for lunch, but my employer doesn't buy my lunch for me. It gives me cash to buy food. Which means I'm going to starve.

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) June 30, 2014

2) The Supreme Court is discriminating against women.

Gotta make a list: Viagra? Okay. Vasectomies? Okay. Female birth control? Nope. What differentiates these, I wonder?

— Markos Moulitsas (@markos) June 30, 2014

Oddly enough, the only contraception-related discrimination baked into law by Obamacare was against men. After all, male contraception like condoms or vasectomies was never covered by the law. Thanks for playing, Markos!

Good Q! Obamacare never covered vasectomies or condoms. MT @markos Vasectomies? Okay. Female birth control? Nope. What differentiates these?

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) June 30, 2014

3) The men on the Supreme Court shouldn’t be allowed to rule on decisions that affect women.

Senate ML Harry Reid on SCOTUS Hobby Lobby ruling: "It's time that five men on the Supreme Court stop deciding what happens to women."

— Susan Ferrechio (@susanferrechio) June 30, 2014

Good call, Harry.

Remember that time @SenatorReid praised the all-female circuit court panel for slapping down Planned Parenthood's TX abortion law challenge?

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) June 30, 2014

4) The Hobby Lobby case had nothing to do with abortion and everything to do with birth control.

Every single article about the Hobby Lobby case should absolutely mention that PLAN B HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ABORTION! FEELINGS AREN'T FACTS

— Big Tits Will Weldon (@oldmanweldon) June 30, 2014

This is unscientific "personhood" logic behind banning birth control RT @irin Facts v beliefs in the Hobby Lobby case http://t.co/FuGawxrkqD

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) June 30, 2014

That one gets bonus points for squeezing both the “it’s not about abortion!” and “the Supreme Court banned birth control!” lies into 140 characters. It loses points, however, for not mentioning Bush, Halliburton, or the Kochs.

The truth of the matter is that the case was about abortion, specifically four types of contraception that can result in the destruction of a fertilized egg. Hobby Lobby paid for 16 different types of non-abortive contraceptive coverage for its employees. The anti-science Left, however, argues that a fertilized egg doesn’t count as human life, and therefore there’s nothing wrong with killing one. After all, nothing says “pro-Science” like comparing a human embryo to a fingernail.

@seanmdav @EWErickson It isn't anymore than a fingernail is alive on its own.

— Andy Caldwell (@AndyCaldwell_2) June 30, 2014

If you're going to argue human life doesn't begin at conception, the burden is on you to create human life in its absence. Godspeed.

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) June 30, 2014

The Nobel committee eagerly awaits the report on your monumental scientific achievement.

5) The Supreme Court decision just proves that GOP wingnuts want to control my bedroom.

Welcome to the bedroom of your employees, Hobby Lobby.

— Josh (@VagrantSays) June 30, 2014

I think I can speak for most conservatives when I say that I want literally nothing to do with whatever it has that happens in your bedroom. But you’re going to need to pay for whatever happens in there by yourself.

"Get your politics out of my bedroom!" "Not a problem. I'm just going to grab my wallet before I leave." "The wallet stays, bigot."

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) June 30, 2014

6) Your boss shouldn’t make health care decisions for you.

They actually have a point here. Unfortunately the irony of simultaneously supporting that argument and Obamacare’s employer health care mandates is lost on them. Over to you, Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.)

Disappointed in the SCOTUS Hobby Lobby ruling. Healthcare should be decided between a woman & her Dr.— not her boss. #NotMyBossesBusiness

— Senator Kay Hagan (@SenatorHagan) June 30, 2014

Oddly enough, a great way to prevent employers from making health care decisions for their employees is to not pass laws requiring employers to make health care decisions for their employees. Crazy, right?

Except when it comes to paying for it. MT @SandraFluke A woman’s boss should not have a say in her health care decisions

— Jim Treacher (@jtLOL) June 30, 2014

"Your boss shouldn't dictate your private life." – people who support a health care law that forces me to buy something I don't want

— Matthew (@Matthops82) June 30, 2014

Hobby Lobby lawyer: "Hobby Lobby would love to stay out of this, and leave this decision to a woman and her doctor." http://t.co/vfxjZytHRI

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) June 30, 2014

After seeing that line of convulsively posted meaningless memes

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I don't take your posts too seriously

Leviticus 19:27

Want birth control? Go buy it. Nobody is stopping you.

If I was in a bad mood, I’d be blunt. But I’m tentatively and partially satisfied today, after the Supreme Court extended its unprecedented week-long streak of getting things mostly right. This morning came the news that the Robed Ones concur, at least to a degree, with Hobby Lobby. ‘Closely held’ companies can opt out of Obama’s contraception mandate, if they have strong religious objections.

Of course, it’s worth noting that Hobby Lobby has no problem with contraception — it already provides birth control. The company only took issue with abortion-inducing drugs, like the Morning After Pill.
Do you morons understand that?
This ruling is a limited victory for freedom and sanity, but it doesn’t go nearly far enough. The justices could have issued a sweeping decision fortifying every person’s right to run their lives and their companies according to the dictates of their conscience, rather than the dictates of an authoritarian government bureaucracy. Instead, they focused the issue down to the specifics of Hobby Lobby’s particular situation, meaning that other companies, businesses, and corporations will still be subject to Orwellian speech infringements.

And don’t use social media or watch the news for the next few days if you wish to avoid a sudden and intense migraine. Progressives have reacted to the ruling in their typically reasonable way, calling for Hobby Lobby to be burned to the ground, marking the first time in recorded history that anyone has made terroristic threats against an arts and crafts chain. Jo-Ann Fabrics better start beefing up its security.

The Huffington Post screeched in its headline that the Supreme Court has ‘gone after women,’ while legions of other liberals threw hysterical temper tantrums over Hobby Lobby’s ‘intrusion into a woman’s uterus.’ Mother Jones decided that the Supremes hadn’t only waged a war against women, but against science as well.

Others resorted to plain ol’ lying:

Hobby Lobby says no to birth control pills but yes to covering employees vasectomies, if you were wondering what it's like to be a woman.

— kelly oxford (@kellyoxford) June 30, 2014

Supreme Court rules that bosses can deny employees coverage of birth control. #HobbyLobby #NotMyBossBusiness

— Sandra Fluke (@SandraFluke) June 30, 2014

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September 16, 1966 ( notice the date)

“I’m quite confident that we’re going to rebel against this abusive government’ I think that we’re in a period today comparable to the American founding period in two senses: one, we’re worried about decay — we’re worried about whether we’re squandering our legacy and whether we’re calling into question whether people can really govern themselves — but also because, and this is the heartening part of this, today as never before in my lifetime, Americans have rekindled their interest in the founding era and the founding principles. Look at the wonderful sales of biographies of the founders: Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison. Look at the Tea Party, which I think frankly is one of the great events of my lifetime. The American people go through life with a little crick of their necks from looking back at the past, and that’s healthy. We always relate to the Declaration and to the Constitution and here, along comes the Tea Party movement named after something that happened in 1773: the Boston Tea Party. And it’s called us back to reverence for, and understanding of, and insistence upon, the founding principles of limited government. So, in a good sense and a bad sense, I think we’re in the founding period.”

--- George Will