The Left’s Reaction to the SC’s Hobby Lobby and Harris Rulings Shows that it Hates Freedom

There is no other way to interpret the hissy fits it is
throwing. In both instances, I note in my column in The
Week, the Supreme Court upheld the
liberties of religion, speech and association enshrined in the
First Amendment. But it did so on grounds so narrow so as to not
even be worth chugging a Sam Adams for this July 4.

Hobby Lobby challenged Obamacare’s mandate that companies offer
contraceptive coverage even in violation of their religious
beliefs. I note:

Yet instead of simply affirming the owners of Hobby Lobby’s
broad constitutional right not to be forced to violate their
religious beliefs, the justices ruled in the company’s favor only
because not doing so would have violated the Religious Freedom and
Restoration Act.

All that the act requires is that before violating someone’s
religious liberties, the government demonstrates that it had no
other way to achieve its ends. In this case, the “conservative”
justices questioned neither the end — provision of contraceptives —
nor whether it was a “compelling state interest.” These fanatics of
limited government ruled only that because there were
less-religious-liberty-busting ways to achieve contraceptive
coverage — for example, by the government directly funding it as
it’s doing for religious universities and hospitals — the mandate
did not meet the RFTRA test.

None of this, however, prevented the left from throwing a
collective hissy-fit. Social media erupted into tiresome taunts
of fascism.

As for Harris vs. Quinn in which a mom sued Illinois’ public
unions for garnishing the state subsidies she receives for taking
care of her disabled son, one would have thought that standing up
for the mother would be a no-brainer for the left. But, apparently,
letting her keep her money, according to Salon‘s Joan
Walsh, is a victory for the “one percent” and the “plutocrat
carte.l”

I cannot do justice to Walsh’s twisted logic in a few words, so
just go and read the damn column
here – and then weep tomorrow about how unhinged the left has
become in this country.