The Hobby Lobby court ruling is bullshit.
Here's why it is bullshit:
"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between [Woman] & [her] [Hathor] (God), that [she] owes account to none other for [her] faith or [her] worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State." - Thomas Jefferson in a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802.
A separation between church and state in America was encouraged by Jefferson because he was intelligent enough to know that religious dogma is essentially an opinion and that opinion's should not dictate governmental policies.
So say Susan is 14 and pregnant and wants to get an abortion. But Susan's Uncle Steve is against it because Uncle Steve thinks abortion is murder. Thinking abortion is murder is actually an opinion, not a fact though, Uncle Steve. Because when someone assigns a zygote, blastocyst, embryo, or fetus personhood due to religious zealotry, that dogmatic opinion stating a mass of cells is a person just doesn't make it so. For the concept of what defines "personhood" is a subjective opinion, not an objective one and philosophical, at best.
For instance, in Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward – 17 U.S. 518 (1819), the U.S. Supreme Court recognized corporations as having the same rights as natural persons to contract and to enforce contracts. Then in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad – 118 U.S. 394 (1886), the Chief Justice Morrison Waite made the concept of corporate personhood even more clear when he stated, "The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations. We are all of the opinion that it does." Two years later, in Pembina Consolidated Silver Mining Co. v. Pennsylvania – 125 U.S. 181 (1888), the Court held: "Under the designation of 'person' there is no doubt that a private corporation is included [in the Fourteenth Amendment]. Such corporations are merely associations of individuals united for a special purpose and permitted to do business under a particular name and have a succession of members without dissolution." And this doctrine has been reaffirmed by the Court many, many times since.
Honestly, it's extremely outrageously dangerous that our Supreme Court is contending that corporations and undeveloped fetuses are more of a human being than an actual human being is.
Unborn entities are recognized as people because apparently wombs and women are mere hosts of labor (pun entirely intended) but not assigned the same dignity of personhood. Nothing demonstrates this crippling dehumanization more than the Hobby Lobby decision. It's tacky, ridiculous, insulting, depraved, and uncivil, America. Susan trying to achieve more with her life than become an out-of-wedlock teen mom by 15 is a noble aspiration and y'all ought to be ashamed of yourselves for expecting a child to sacrifice their still germinating life because, let's be real, they made A MISTAKE. A mistake that doesn't only adversely impact Susan's life, but the yet-to-be life of that yet-to-be person that wasn't put there by immaculate conception! Her entire life, she's bombarded with advertising, everything from sexy pop commercials to soft core porn in plots that have made violence against women a troupe for Christ's sake. Her entire life, she's sold and told to wear clothes that are pink, frilled, lacy, and improper--because sometimes, that's ALL that's on the shelf. Susan grows up in a world where #LikeAGirl is an insult. Where she's shamed for putting out but chased to let someone put it in. You can't assign the choice only to the fault to the female when you're crushing her with a patriarchy that treats her like fucking frilly furniture you can screw whenever it strikes your fancy.
I am sick and tired of all these scientific and technological and sociological ignoramuses ruining everything for the rest of us actual educated, moralistic, real people. Real people that care about the quality of the life that's given to life, grasping, that that's the real sin, letting children live listless in squalor, letting true brilliance and talent just rot on the alter of money. Because you think glory is the hole in the opening of life. Glory is the actual product of life. Woman aren't clamoring for men to wear chastity belts because male masturbation is genocide. It's not our fault we got or get pregnant or live in an ass-backwards society that dictates a male God's will can be altered with fertility drugs--no problem; but actively miscarriage?--than you're a souless whore. Your religiously fueled opinion should not influence what happens to my actual real life. And yes, making life and causing death is A PART of the human experience, you cannot cause war and yet suspend my ability to decide creation as a female, that is NOT for you to say sirs. It's just not.
This...*ruling*...degrees no separation of corporation and religion, and since any half-wit should know by now that we live in an corporate run oligarchy, it's really important to grasp the real actual danger in this particular outcome. I'm honestly surprised that no one on the net seems to be drawing attention to this fact (as far as I've seen). I can't predict the future but I am going to ascertain that this does not bode well for us. Is the cross of the future going to be a golden M or a pair of mouse ears?
Corporations aren't fucking people.
I'm a fucking person.
Corporations can literally live *forever* - so you know what that really makes them?--Vampires.
And y'all know to deal with bloodsuckers.
We could even...make a hobby out of it.
Here's why it is bullshit:
"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between [Woman] & [her] [Hathor] (God), that [she] owes account to none other for [her] faith or [her] worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State." - Thomas Jefferson in a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802.
A separation between church and state in America was encouraged by Jefferson because he was intelligent enough to know that religious dogma is essentially an opinion and that opinion's should not dictate governmental policies.
So say Susan is 14 and pregnant and wants to get an abortion. But Susan's Uncle Steve is against it because Uncle Steve thinks abortion is murder. Thinking abortion is murder is actually an opinion, not a fact though, Uncle Steve. Because when someone assigns a zygote, blastocyst, embryo, or fetus personhood due to religious zealotry, that dogmatic opinion stating a mass of cells is a person just doesn't make it so. For the concept of what defines "personhood" is a subjective opinion, not an objective one and philosophical, at best.
For instance, in Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward – 17 U.S. 518 (1819), the U.S. Supreme Court recognized corporations as having the same rights as natural persons to contract and to enforce contracts. Then in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad – 118 U.S. 394 (1886), the Chief Justice Morrison Waite made the concept of corporate personhood even more clear when he stated, "The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations. We are all of the opinion that it does." Two years later, in Pembina Consolidated Silver Mining Co. v. Pennsylvania – 125 U.S. 181 (1888), the Court held: "Under the designation of 'person' there is no doubt that a private corporation is included [in the Fourteenth Amendment]. Such corporations are merely associations of individuals united for a special purpose and permitted to do business under a particular name and have a succession of members without dissolution." And this doctrine has been reaffirmed by the Court many, many times since.
Honestly, it's extremely outrageously dangerous that our Supreme Court is contending that corporations and undeveloped fetuses are more of a human being than an actual human being is.
(American sucker.)
I am sick and tired of all these scientific and technological and sociological ignoramuses ruining everything for the rest of us actual educated, moralistic, real people. Real people that care about the quality of the life that's given to life, grasping, that that's the real sin, letting children live listless in squalor, letting true brilliance and talent just rot on the alter of money. Because you think glory is the hole in the opening of life. Glory is the actual product of life. Woman aren't clamoring for men to wear chastity belts because male masturbation is genocide. It's not our fault we got or get pregnant or live in an ass-backwards society that dictates a male God's will can be altered with fertility drugs--no problem; but actively miscarriage?--than you're a souless whore. Your religiously fueled opinion should not influence what happens to my actual real life. And yes, making life and causing death is A PART of the human experience, you cannot cause war and yet suspend my ability to decide creation as a female, that is NOT for you to say sirs. It's just not.
This...*ruling*...degrees no separation of corporation and religion, and since any half-wit should know by now that we live in an corporate run oligarchy, it's really important to grasp the real actual danger in this particular outcome. I'm honestly surprised that no one on the net seems to be drawing attention to this fact (as far as I've seen). I can't predict the future but I am going to ascertain that this does not bode well for us. Is the cross of the future going to be a golden M or a pair of mouse ears?
Corporations aren't fucking people.
I'm a fucking person.
Corporations can literally live *forever* - so you know what that really makes them?--Vampires.
And y'all know to deal with bloodsuckers.
We could even...make a hobby out of it.
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