Hobby Lobby ahole threatens to close all stores

[Nuclear Unicorn]

27. I know the arguments in favor of contraceptives.

My Lover Boy and I are using it and we make love like ferrets on a caffeine bender.

For some people, however, using elective contraceptives is contrary to their deeply-held beliefs. I accept that. That's why I don't share their deeply-held beliefs. But on that same note I also recognize that is their belief and they are more entitled to their beliefs than I am entitled to tell them what they are or are not allowed to believe in.

If those beliefs tell them that paying for a service that provides something that runs contrary to their beliefs is indefensible I would hope people would assess whether our need to have what we want is worth the price of a free society. We can argue all day that it is silly, unfounded, superstitious etc. and it probably wouldn't be much of an argument because we would actually be agreeing. What does matter is that we do not want to be the people who force their beliefs on others. Freedom of conscience doesn't have a "Well, I think you're just stupid" exception.

I earned my money. I was paid my wages. I bought my birth control. I made my choices. I refuse to delegate those choices to third parties, especially a profit-minded corporation using laws imposed by vote-whoring politicians. That is far too many people with no genuine concern for me becoming involved directly in the things that matter to me personally. None of them care for me no matter what the advertising / campaign literature promises and more likely than not they will both seek to manipulate my life to their purposes. Keeping the government and church out of my body is a two-way street. If I want to keep them out I can't invite them in.