[2ndDivisionVet]

Gee, I was hopping he'd weigh in. I wonder what Walter Koenig and D.C. Fontana think?

I'm pretty sure that the owners of Hobby Lobby aren't worried about Mr. Sulu and his followers boycotting their craft stores.

[kevkrom]

“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.

[zencycler]

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?

[Mastador1]

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 ................