On 01/07/2014 1:07 PM, ImStillMags wrote:
> For those who are not in the US, or have been living under a rock, the Supreme court ruled today that corporations who claim religious objections to birth control may exempt themselves from covering birth control in their health insurance plans. I'm not a lawyer, and I won't weigh in on the staggering legal ramifications of this decision. But I am a priest, a practical theologian, and the theology in this case is just plain bad. Obscenely so, and that, I can comment on.
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> Very simply, the owners of Hobby Lobby (and other corporations) argued that their religion (Christianity) did not allow for abortion, and that birth control was a form of abortion. On those grounds they refused to cover the cost of birth control (and plan B contraceptives, which are still contraceptives, not abortion) for their company sponsored health insurance.
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Religion really does poison everything!!
Graham