JMHO Loc: Utah

The liberal attack on religion stems from envy, greed, anger and h**e, just like every other precept of liberalism. Liberals envy the loyalty and devotion that religion inspires. They hunger greedily to have it for themselves.

Mostly, they are angry because the religious dare to defy them and to reject the ugly and inhuman tenets of collectivism. And they h**e God for having the temerity to define right and wrong. They consider that their sole prerogative.

The liberal freak-out over the Hobby Lobby decision is just the latest example of the left coming out of the closet and embracing its anti-faith bigotry.

It’s interesting to see how liberals approach the controversy, and how they fail to even accurately describe it. In the big picture, the Hobby Lobby case basically pitted the right of individuals to practice their religion even when they combine into closely-held corporations against a newly-minted pseudo-right of women to receive free birth control insurance coverage. Now, the right of religious liberty has been recognized for over two hundred years in the First Amendment. The pseudo-right of free birth control insurance coverage came into being when bureaucrats at the Department of Health and Human Services decided to mandate it following passage of Obamacare in 2010.

Naturally, the liberals side with the government bureaucrats’ four year-old whim over the established principle of religious liberty.

Of course, liberals won’t say that. Take Hillary Clinton. Please.

Hillary was outraged by the ruling which, legally speaking, focused on the applicability of the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act’s (RFRA) requirement that any infringement on religious liberty must serve a compelling governmental interest and consist of the least restrictive means to achieve it. RFRA is hardly part of any #WarOnWomen. It passed with overwhelming majorities in Congress. In fact, Ted Kennedy was one of the driving forces behind RFRA – uh, that was probably a bad metaphor.

And, of course, Bill Clinton signed it, making it yet another of the sexist, h********c and otherwise awful laws Bill Clinton signed that Hillary now rejects. Hillary, of course, portrays the decision as some sort of violation of a woman’s constitutional rights while failing to mention where such a right to free stuff is hiding among the amendments. In doing so, she applies the same keen legal insight that led her to failing the D.C. bar exam.

All this is not to say that liberals h**e every aspect of religion. They don’t – they just want to harness some of its aspects in the service of their agenda. Or, to be more exact, some of what they think are aspects of religion, like mindless obedience and blind faith. For example, only some sort of quasi-religious, childlike faith in t***s-rational t***h would allow one to stand in a snowdrift outside the Koch Brothers’ offices shivering as he holds up a placard reading, “The End Is Near! Repent Your G****l W*****g!”

And there are creepier parallels. In ancient Carthage, they worshiped a god called Baal of the Fiery Furnace who demanded the sacrifice of young children. Today, salty feminist grad students play hooky from their classes on how patriarchy kept boys from liking them to shout slogans about how their a******ns empowered them as women. Apparently, only the death of countless babies can atone for the cruel patriarchy of western civilization. Or something.

Some, embracing the “New Atheism” of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Bill Maher, attack religion directly. Back on August 29, 2013, Matty Yglesias, a liberal blogger known only for his experience in the field of being a liberal blogger, tweeted: “I take an old-school Jacobin-style line that religion should be stamped out.”

Here’s a helpful hint, Matt. The end with the hole is the one that goes “bang.” That’s the end you’ll want to point at those religious people whose religion you want to stamp out. I know a bunch of people who would die to preserve their religion. I’m not sure Matt would be willing to die to stamp it out – or that he could find any other sucker willing to lose his life trying to fulfill that liberal fantasy.

What Matt reveals is the not-so-hidden desire of the left to wipe out every competing power center in society, and religion is a competing power center. He, and his goosestepping brethren, h**e the idea that people might hold and act upon beliefs other than those he and his pals cooked up at some D.C. cocktail party or in some faculty lounge at the local university’s Oppression Studies Department. This is why they must break religion to their will. Some, like the alleged Presbyterians who recently divested in Israel, are only too eager to obey by choosing leftism over God’s chosen people.

But where they can’t stamp faith with their brand, they will seek to stamp it out. My new book, Conservative Insurgency, is a speculative history of the future struggle against the false religion of liberalism, and it anticipates that this war on those of faith will only get worse before it gets better. But then oppression is something the religious (and secular people who defend religious liberty) have faced throughout history. Yet today, the religious have tools they did not necessarily have in the past – first and foremost, a Constitution that protects our right to practice our religion as we see fit. Moreover, we also have social media that allows us to bypass the secular gatekeepers to spread information and organize.

Oh, and we also have God on our side.

Kurt Schlichter

rickdri

Great post! However I do have some disdain for religion in general. Too many times folks choose to seek a religion as opposed to God! They put their religion and their traditions ahead of god! I love God yet I am not affiliated with any religion!

Caboose Loc: South Carolina

Good One. The enviromentalist are part of the so called liberal
brigade and they don't worship God either. Instead they worship
the earth. Most of them are homosexuals.

Steve700

The liberals sure h**ed government in a hippie days. I guess they just love it when they're in control of it. The real problem with them and why they totally lack wisdom and seemed to have taken up residence in the opposite is because they want to be God rather than recognize God and do their best to do His will. They do h**e God and the idea of any authority over them which is kind of strange sense they build a government with ever increasing power and authority rather than a limited one. He actually they do have a religion and it is the biggest and most dynamic religion of them all -- Marxist humanism. Without looking up a definition for religion I would just say it is wh**ever binds you.

Kevyn

The disgust of the Hobby Lobby decision felt by thinking people has nothing to do with hating religion, most progressives in this country are Christians, the difference between liberal and conservitive Christians is that liberal Christians believe in a loving, kind and forgiving God and conservitives go for that fire, brimstone and bowels of hell stuff. It is the difference of faith through enlightenment and joy as opposed to faith due to the threat of eternal damnation. The trouble with the court ruling is that a corporation is nothing but an organized collection of property and capital, and the court is giving these collections of money and property rights that should be reserved for individuals. A collection of wealth can now force it's religious beliefs on real people it employs, and it can dodge following the law by ascribing itself with beliefs in its charter. This is pure nonsense and an attack and mockery of legitimate religion.

Caboose Loc: South Carolina

You have a radical pervert view of it dont you?

rickdri

Not true! Many conservatives preach God's love! Besides Hobby Lobby is only contesting 4 of the 20 birth control methods. Those that deal with the death of the unborn child! Government does not have the right to force this upon anyone. Why do liberals want government to control every aspect of their lives? Besides why is it a business or tax payers responsibility to pay for a woman's a******n? It is wrong but it is something that is personal and should be paid for and handled by the woman privately.
We are told that a person's private life is no business of anyone except themselves. That is until it comes time to pay for a "mistake" a person makes. Then it is time for everyone to get involved and help correct the "mistake." This is just like when the government allowed the bankers to go hog wild betting their customers money on Wall Street derivatives! While everything was going fine, it was no one's business. When they had made their mistakes and everything crashed, it was then the tax payers business to bail them out. The same applies to contraception and a******n. It's your business to have all of the fun you want and if you happen to be air headed enough and not use any contraception and you get pregnant, well then we will just force your employer or the taxpayers to foot the bill. Where has personal responsibility gone?

JMHO Loc: Utah

I see your head is in it's usual place...about two feet up your rear.

Caboose Loc: South Carolina

PeterS

What a load of crap. We live in a country where freedom is supposed to be paramount then the first thing we do is relinquish that freedom to some mythical god. And guess what--it is fine for you to do so--what isn't fine is for you to impose your religious beliefs on others. That's where we liberal draw the line. Keep you beliefs in your pants. I could give a fu#k how you feel about contraception just don't impose those beliefs on me! Go back an worship your pile of rocks but when you throw those rocks at us--believe me, we know how to throw those rocks back!

JMHO Loc: Utah

With your limp wrist?

rickdri

Do you know what you are angry about? Did you know that Hobby Lobby was only contesting 4 of the 20 contraceptive methods? Those that deal with the death of the unborn child. There are 16 other contraceptive methods that Hobby Lobby agrees to! Why is it fine for liberals to stand up for their views, yet when conservatives take a stand for what they feel is right, liberals throw a tantrum? In the Hobby Lobby case contraceptives as a whole are not being challenged.
I have watched films of people protesting this decision by the Supreme Court and no one was aware of the circumstances in the case. Now Obama is trying to find a way around the Court's decision. If he were any other president he would have already been fired! His actions in this and many other cases are tyrannical.
Bush was being tyrannical when he passed the Patriot Act. Liberals were calling him out as were conservatives. Obama has taken the Patriot Act to the extreme with the NSA spying on American citizens and giving himself the authority to jail someone indefinitely just because he thinks they might be a terrorist. The person has committed no crime and there doesn't have to be any proof of his/her guilt. Yet he can throw them in jail until their teeth rot out just because of his suspicions. I have yet to see any liberal raise his/her voice in opposition to this obvious breach of the constitution. Why is that?

PeterS

Now if conservatives would only act as if they knew gods love...


This has already been challanged to include all forms of contraception:

"The Affordable Care Act regulations issued by the federal government, however, required twenty different preventive methods or services, including sterilization and pregnancy counseling. Depending upon how lower courts now interpret the Hobby Lobby decision, companies that fit within the Court’s “closely held company” bracket and offer religious objections could be spared from having to provide any of those services through their employee health plans."



Why do you have a right to force this on everyone! Why are you trying to control everyones lives!!! Government belongs to the people whereas your religious beliefs belong only to you. You have every right to your beliefs but no right to extend those rights over everyone else....


Insurance is part of employee compensation. How that compensation is used is no ones business but the employees!

How is not wanting to get pregnant a mistake! A woman has every right to control their own bodies and you have zero right to interfere...


So now you like regulations! Would you conservative please make up your fricking minds!


You're the one telling people not to use contraception. Check the mirror, maybe that is where the lack of responsibility has gone...

Artemis

In their warped sense of thinking, if someone says "embrace others CHIOCE of beliefs, they view it as anti-God, or their Christianity....????

JMHO Loc: Utah

Here's a novel idea...PAY FOR YOUR OWN CONTRACEPTION! It's less than $300 a year! Why should I, as a taxpayer, pay for someone's promiscuous sex life??????