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Eugene Robinson: Hobby Lobby Sort of Like Segregationists
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 06/30/2014 5:43:40 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Hobby Lobby's objection on religious grounds to paying for abortion-causing contraceptives for its employees reminds Eugene Robinson of segregationists who cited the Bible in support of their views. In his great magnimity, Robinson allowed that the Hobby Lobby case "is perhaps a bit different." But if the WaPo columnist didn't think the segregation analogy was relevant, he presumably wouldn't have cited it in the first place on today's Morning Joe.

There was also a point of light on the show. Donny Deutsch, after announcing that he was "far from a conservative," nevertheless went on to make the explicitly free-market argument that "nobody is forcing anybody to work at Hobby Lobby."

View the video here.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: eugenerobinson; hobbylobby; leftwinglunatic; morningjoe; segregation
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1 posted on 06/30/2014 5:43:41 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Hobby Lobby sort of reminds Eugene Robinson of segregationists. Ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 06/30/2014 5:44:25 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The foolish Kermit The Frog-voiced editorialist.

My husband and I do “Eugene Robinson talk” for ten minutes after he makes one of his ridiculous appearances.


3 posted on 06/30/2014 5:45:24 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Eugene Robinson:
Stopped reading right there. (Actually, I didn't even make it to the colon.)
4 posted on 06/30/2014 5:46:35 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Liberals are only interested in their morals or lack of morals and enforce them with Nazi zeal.


5 posted on 06/30/2014 5:47:00 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

So, Eugene is saying that objecting to being forced to provide free contraceptives and abortifacients to other is morally the same and buying and selling human flesh. And we’re supposed to take these people seriously?


7 posted on 06/30/2014 5:47:53 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"nobody is forcing anybody to work at Hobby Lobby."

Not so. Hobby Lobby buys slaves and forces them to work for peanuts. They have overseers in the aisles and slave shacks out back. Ever wonder where all that yarn they have came from?

8 posted on 06/30/2014 5:47:59 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Is he really accusing Hobby Lobby of being like Democrats? Seriously?


9 posted on 06/30/2014 5:50:02 AM PDT by Hoodat (Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Donny Deutsch ... nevertheless went on to make the explicitly free-market argument that “nobody is forcing anybody to work at Hobby Lobby.”

After years of trying, I still haven’t been able to get a liberal to tell me why one person should be forced to pay for the birth control of another.


10 posted on 06/30/2014 5:51:10 AM PDT by cdcdawg
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To: Hoodat

LOL, good one.


11 posted on 06/30/2014 5:51:49 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Idiot.

We are talking about BEHAVIOR, NOT ANCESTRY!

IDIOT!


12 posted on 06/30/2014 5:55:07 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: cdcdawg
After years of trying, I still haven’t been able to get a liberal to tell me why one person should be forced to pay for the birth control of another.

So they won't have to pay for the abortions of Democrat children, is the only thing in their frame of reference.

13 posted on 06/30/2014 5:55:22 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Correct me if I am wrong.

Hobby Lobby doesn’t object to all forms of mandated reproductive rights outlined in ObamaCare. They object only to those which cause an abortion.

I have yet to see a single media outlet make this point. I have to wonder why.


14 posted on 06/30/2014 5:56:43 AM PDT by Nip (BOHEICA and TANSTAAFL - both seem very appropriate today.)
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To: Nip

Because pointing out real facts shows the left as the idiots they are.


15 posted on 06/30/2014 6:01:07 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What an embarrassment to black folk!


16 posted on 06/30/2014 6:04:42 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Nip
I have yet to see a single media outlet make this point.

Yup.

I *have*, however, seen a good number of them make the point that Hobby Lobby "prevents their workers from getting birth control", which is a complete pantload. No one said that they couldn't have it....just that HL wasn't going to pay for it.

17 posted on 06/30/2014 6:05:27 AM PDT by wbill
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The country has entered an era of decadence and decline. The opinion of this bizarre fool can only be given a platform in this sad environment.


18 posted on 06/30/2014 6:06:44 AM PDT by allendale
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I don't blame Eugene so much, the race issue continues to "work" because we allow it to.

But seriously, must EVERYTHING be a race issue?

19 posted on 06/30/2014 6:06:52 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Nip

Birth control is “defensible”, abortion much less so.

So, they conflate the two to make it seem like those who object to forcing a company to provide abortifacients is denying their employees access to birth control.


20 posted on 06/30/2014 6:08:15 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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