The Religious Right’s reaction to the Supreme Court’s decision in the Hobby Lobby case — in which the Court’s conservative majority ruled that some for-profit businesses must be exempt from the Affordable Care Act’s contraception coverage mandate — has started rolling in.
Erick Erickson sees the decision as a victory over the promiscuous:
My religion trumps your “right” to employer subsidized consequence free sex.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) June 30, 2014
Eric Metaxas thinks King George III would have been on the side of contraceptive insurance:
If SCOTUS kills Relig Liberty in the @HobbyLobbyCase today, the US govt will have become King George III. Stay tuned. http://t.co/hqSUt0tKtw
— Eric Metaxas (@ericmetaxas) June 30, 2014
The Franciscan University of Steubenville compared businesses that don’t want to provide their employees with contraception coverage to religious martyrs in ancient Rome:
Today is the memorial of the first martyrs of Rome, persecuted for their religious beliefs under Nero. #ReligiousFreedom #HobbyLobby
— Franciscan Univ (@FranciscanU) June 30, 2014
Steve Deace called the Green family, which owns the Hobby Lobby chain, “the Rosa Parks of the religious liberty fight” and urged the movement not to “settle” with just the Hobby Lobby victory:
If we play our cards right, and God grants us a favor, we can use this as a momentum changer. That’s mainly thanks to the Green family, who just became the Rosa Parks of the religious liberty fight. Just as her refusal to comply with an unjust edict on a bus one day blew the lid off the civil rights movement, perhaps the Greens’ refusal to comply with Obamacare’s unjust edict can accomplish the same for a similarly worthy cause.
But that won’t happen if we “settle” for this win like we have all too many others.
AFA’s Bryan Fischer thinks he knows Chief Justice John Roberts’ motivation to vote with the Court’s majority:
Roberts joined majority opinion today. His way of admitting that he blew it when he upheld ObamaCare to begin with.
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) June 30, 2014
And finally, the American Family Association is taking a poll:
