Supremes vote for religious bigotry

[donquixote99]

We are at the crux of it.

Religious freedom is you can believe what you want.

Religious tolerance means you can't be persecuted for your beliefs.

Neither means that you can use your personal religion to evade legal duties to others. That is imposing your religion on others.

The duty in this case is to include the disputed medical services in one's health plan. This is legitimate regulation based on a vital public interest in safeguarding the rights and health of consumers in a highly complex corporate health care system.

The result of the Supreme Court ruling is that Hobby Lobby gets in effect to send a clergyman of their choosing into the examination room with a woman and her doctor, with a veto on procedures, regardless of the woman's religious beliefs. This is not religious freedom, it is religious imposition. And it is made possible by state power handed to the religionists by the Supreme Court, in an historically bad decision.