Since the justices on the Supreme Court are above the law, and
ethics requirements every other judge in the nation are held to, it is
not surprising they violated the law …
Americans have been led to believe that of all the institutions in
government, they can depend on honesty from the members of the highest
court in the land. However, since the justices on the Supreme Court are
above the law, and ethics requirements every other judge in the nation
are held to, it is not surprising the conservatives on the Court lied
and immediately violated their own ruling to fit their religious
worldview.
In the Hobby Lobby ruling, Justice Samuel Alito
stated the ruling was narrow in scope, and “should” only apply to
religious corporations opposed to certain forms of birth control. That
sentiment lasted less than twenty-four hours until the High Court
quietly ordered all lower courts to rehear any cases in which private
for-profit religious companies sought to deny coverage for any type of
contraception; not just the specific types Hobby Lobby was opposed to
because in their religious minds, they are abortion.
Under the Affordable Care Act, there are 20 forms of
contraception that were required to be covered as preventive services
and necessary to women’s health. Although the Court did not dispute the
science, or a compelling need for women’s health, they agreed with Holy
Hobby Lobby that Plan B, Ella, and two types of IUD were abortion and
violated the corporate religious principles. Justice Samuel Alito, in
writing for the majority, used several questionable qualifiers he
claimed limited the ruling’s scope, but the very next day they issued a
series of orders contradicting the “narrow interpretation” of the
decision.
The Justices vacated two separate decisions by the
US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Autocam Corp. v. Burwell and
Eden Foods v. Burwell, and ordered the appeals court to rehear the cases
and issue rulings in accordance with the catholics’ Hobby Lobby
decision. The Sixth Circuit rejected requests from catholic-owned
businesses that demanded exemptions because catholicism considers
artificial birth control abortion and is therefore a sin against god.
The Court also ordered the District of Columbia Appeals Court to reopen
a similar case, Gilardi v. Department of Health & Human Services,
and waste taxpayer money because “the wingnut justices endorsed the
idea that religious objections to insurance that covers any form of
preventative healthcare for women have merit” according to catholic cult doctrine.
It is relevant to note that the five male wingnuts, who agreed with Hobby Lobby, as catholics believe that any form of “unnatural birth control”
is abortion. This is despite all known medical science, and fundamental
common sense to the contrary. The Court’s catholics rejected claims
filed by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and
several other medical associations that “there is no scientific
evidence that contraceptives, emergency or otherwise, available in the
United States and approved by the FDA affect an existing pregnancy.
Instead, they prevent ovulation, so there is no egg to fertilize, and no
egg, like no implantation, means no pregnancy and no abortion.” But that is medical science and the cult speaks for god and catholics have the documentation to prove it.
According to the catholic humanae vitae (n.14 [3]) and not the christian bible, the cult
holds that “
any
unnatural or artificial means of birth control are immoral,
blameworthy, sinful, and violate god’s law because they are abortion.”
The catholics also claim that at one time all protestant religions in
the world obeyed catholic dogmata regarding “unnatural birth control”
and they are on a crusade to rein in all protestant denominations to
dutifully adhere to cult doctrine; precisely as the High Court’s wingnuts intended.
There is nothing that will sway catholics from their
belief that as religious rulers, when they say no contraceptives, they
mean no contraceptives; even if they are provided by a third party at no
cost to catholics. For example, Notre Dame was given an exemption from
providing contraception coverage in health plans, and the cost of
providing them was shifted to a third-party to completely isolate the catholic University from dealing with, or providing, contraception. It
was not enough for the catholics and they argued that it was immoral for
a third party outside administrator to provide the objectionable
coverage they regard as abortion. The Seventh Circuit Appellate Court denied Notre Dame’s demand to, as Judge Richard A. Posner wrote, “Forbid any insurer and plan administrator from providing any contraceptive coverage to Notre Dame staff or students.”
Notre Dame is appealing the ruling to the High Court
because now that the wingnuts ruled according to catholic dogma,
they will get the ruling, and control over students and staff, they
demand. A spokesman for the catholics said, “Our concern remains
that if government is allowed to entangle a religious institution of
higher education like Notre Dame in one area contrary to conscience,
it’s given license to do so in others.” Many Americans’ concern is
that if catholics are allowed to enforce their birth control dogma
contrary to women’s conscience’s regarding their own reproductive
health, it will take license to do so in others. The catholics are already
attempting to take license to discriminate against hiring gays or
employees that do not share the employers’ faith.
Interestingly,
according
to the Guttmacher Institute, in 2011 98% of self-identified catholic
women of reproductive age (15-44) have used a method of contraception
other than natural family planning at some point during their
reproductive lives making them sinners in the eyes of the catholic cult. Further, 88% of catholic women are currently using
contraceptives the catholics consider unnatural, sinful, immoral,
murder, and a violation of god’s catholic doctrine. Now that the catholics reined in southern baptists, pentecostals, and other
evangelical fundamentalists, the five wingnuts on the High Court
increased the chances their crusade to ban contraceptive use in America
is one step closer to realization.
As Americans are witnessing, regardless what Alito
and the other wingnut catholic justices claimed, their decision set
a deliberate precedent the religio-wingnutst and United States coven of catholic bishops (USCCB) will use to affect the change cult dogma
demands. Besides giving lower courts permission to expand their logic in
the Hobby Lobby decision, they immediately broadened their decision’s
scope by ordering other appeals courts to rehear and reopen (rule
according to catholicism) prior cases to issue the correct (catholic)
ruling. The Supreme Court’s wingnuts are doing precisely what
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg predicted in her dissent noting the logic in
Alito’s decision went far beyond the limited scope the
conservatives claimed. When she wrote that, “The court, I fear, has ventured into a minefield,” she misread the intent of the wingnuts. They did not randomly “venture into a minefield,”
they planted the mines and opened the floodgates for catholics and the
religio-wingnut cohort to do what they yearned after all along; ban
contraceptives and put an end to married and single women alike from
having “consequence free sex.”
For centuries, the catholic cult ruled the
so-called 'christian' world unchallenged until England’s King Henry VIII
broke the cycle of religious tyranny when he informed the Pope in Rome
that his authority ended at England’s borders. Unfortunately for
American women, and soon the gay community, there is no King Henry to
hold the catholic cult in check. Now that the wingnut court
empowered the cult to define contraceptives as murder and abortion,
the repugican cabal gained a powerful ally in their war on women. With assistance
from the religio-wingnuts, catholics are a step closer to impose
personhood on a zygote and ban contraceptives they, and papal (non)supremacy,
regard as murder.
