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[Star Trek's] George Takei Calls Hypocrisy In Hobby Lobby Ruling 'Galling'
On Top Magazine ^ | July 2, 2014 | Staff

Posted on 07/03/2014 12:49:23 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Out actor George Takei has criticized a Supreme Court decision declaring that some for-profit companies may block their employees' access to certain birth control methods.

Hobby Lobby challenged the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) requirement that insurance health plans include coverage for FDA-approved contraception, arguing that the law violates the company's religious freedom.

“In this case, the owners happen to be deeply Christian; one wonders whether the case would have come out differently if a Muslim-run chain business attempted to impose Sharia law on its employees,” Takei said in a blog post. “As many have pointed out, Hobby Lobby is the same company that invests in Pfizer and Teva Pharmaceuticals, makers of abortion inducing-drugs and the morning after pill. It also buys most of its inventory from China, where forced abortions are common. The hypocrisy is galling.”

“Hobby Lobby is not a church. It's a business – and a big one at that. Businesses must and should be required to comply with neutrally crafted laws of general applicability. Your boss should not have a say over your healthcare. Once the law starts permitting exceptions based on 'sincerely held religious beliefs' there's no end to the mischief and discrimination that will ensue. Indeed, this is the same logic that certain restaurants and hotels have been trying to deploy to allow proprietors to refuse service to gay couples.”

Takei urged readers to boycott the national craft store chain.

“While we work to overturn this decision by legislation, people of good conscious should BOYCOTT any for-profit business, including Hobby Lobby, which chooses to impose its religious beliefs on its employees. The only way such companies ever learn to treat people with decency and tolerance is to hit them where it counts – in their pocketbooks. I won't be shopping there, and women everywhere should exercise their right of protest and refuse to shop there as well,” Takei said.


TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Religion; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: abortion; contraception; contraceptives; dcfontana; genderdysphoria; hobbylobby; homosexualagenda; infanticide; medicareforall; obamacare; sharia; startrek; takei; television
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Boycott George Takei !!!

(George WHO?)

Leni

41 posted on 07/03/2014 4:38:31 AM PDT by MinuteGal (The Infernal Revenue Service - forever to be known as the BS-IRS)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

besides religious bigotry, can anyone tell me why the fags care about this?


42 posted on 07/03/2014 4:45:45 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey Sulu, if it was a Muslim organization, they’d be trying to behead you.


43 posted on 07/03/2014 4:46:51 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim ("It is not the color of his skin, ... it is the blackness that fills his soul")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another Regressive Rat misses the root cause.

Hobby Lobby offers 16 of the 20 birth control methods on the market.

They have have 20 forms of birth control on the market to satisfy the divergent and varied needs of free individuals. Every person is unique, and only that person understands and determines which product is best for there personal situation.

The Government wants to impose, by force, a standard solution onto a free people.

The vast majority will have a problem with the Government “solution”.
Government is not the solution, Government is the Problem


44 posted on 07/03/2014 4:50:57 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

45 posted on 07/03/2014 4:57:15 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: Lockbox

one wonders whether the case would have come out differently if a Muslim-run chain business attempted to impose Sharia law on its employees...

Of course, because Sharia dissenters are quickly silenced when their head is separated from their body at the neck


46 posted on 07/03/2014 4:57:19 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Observant Jews don’t work on Saturday, George, They impose this shutdown on all employees, contractors and customers. File a lawsuit, schmuck.


47 posted on 07/03/2014 5:09:07 AM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nobody should be forced to pay for an abortion. The fascists think the state has ultimate power as was shown in Star Trek.

Pray America wakes up


48 posted on 07/03/2014 5:24:20 AM PDT by bray (Palin/Putin 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

George his happy to impose gay on everybody


49 posted on 07/03/2014 5:34:33 AM PDT by Oratam
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Gilbo_3; Impy; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; GeronL
RE:”Out actor George Takei has criticized a Supreme Court decision declaring that some for-profit companies may block their employees’ access to certain birth control methods.”

This shows the ludicrousness of liberals.

A self-declared homo complaining about not getting free abortion pills from Hobby Lobby, where he doesn't work.
You cant get other men knocked up George(except maybe with HIV) , nature doesn't work that way. .

Melissa Harris Perry calls this ‘Being a good ally’

50 posted on 07/03/2014 6:02:25 AM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

George, it’s not nice to talk when chewing a gay whopper.


51 posted on 07/03/2014 6:06:40 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“In this case, the owners happen to be deeply Christian; one wonders whether the case would have come out differently if a Muslim-run chain business attempted to impose Sharia law on its employees,” Takei said in a blog post.

No one is trying to impose Christianity on their employees - the business, which provides health care as part of their employee's compensation, successfully made the case that the ACA's mandates did not override the protections in the RFRA (signed by Clinton, by the way) that require to government to show both that they have a compelling public interest and that they're using the least possible infringing method of attaining that interest.

If a Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, American Indian, etc., owner wanted to object to any of the ACA's provisions on religious grounds, the situation would be exactly the same, and the ruling enforces that.

52 posted on 07/03/2014 6:07:08 AM PDT by kevkrom (I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t buy cigarettes for my adult daughter because I disapprove of smoking, but I give her money, I shop at some stores that sell cigarettes, and who knows what’s in the mutual funds at my 401k - quite possibly some tobacco firms. Does that make me a hypocrite?


53 posted on 07/03/2014 6:51:17 AM PDT by zencycler
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To: kingattax
"Let us not go to Camelot for it is a silly place"
54 posted on 07/03/2014 6:53:24 AM PDT by lostboy61 (Lock and Load and stand your ground!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who gives a fiddly duck what queers think about birth control, it’s not like they will ever need any form of it, especially not abortion. The only reason mr. oh my, opens his mouth is to denigrate Christianity, oh and to ................


55 posted on 07/03/2014 3:30:10 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: sickoflibs; Impy; NFHale; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj

“You cant get other men knocked up George(except maybe with HIV) , nature doesn’t work that way. .”

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WELCOME TO GAY NATION!!!


56 posted on 07/03/2014 3:57:01 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: sickoflibs; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj

"You mean butt babies aren't real? Set phasers to sad. ;-("

57 posted on 07/03/2014 4:20:28 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: dead

Ha! Ha! Ha!


58 posted on 07/03/2014 8:11:25 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: xzins

I’d say post that on Takei’s Facebook page, but it’d never be seen.


59 posted on 07/03/2014 8:13:35 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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