I find the Hobby Lobby case to be so deeply offensive, it's impossible to describe.

[DirkGently]

40. We actually had to turn off a segment on this last night.

It's too infuriating. And completely in bad faith (pardon the pun). The entire impetus of this argument is to further Republicans' insane determination to attack the ACA, apparently forever. Employers have been providing health insurance for decades, and reproductive care has been part of that.

There's so much wrong here.

- The conceit that damaging and punishing other people is a "right," and that - "religious freedom" is primarily the freedom to discriminate against people.

- The repellant proposition that reproductive care -- and only women's reproductive care, mind you -- is subject to "moral objections" on the basis women "shouldn't" be engaging in certain religiously proscribed sexual activities

- The ongoing, farcical notion that corporations have all the "rights" of human beings, but none of the responsibilties.

There is slim possible silver lining here, whichever way the Court goes, which is the increasingly undeniably conclusion that employer-provided healthcare is a failed system. Given the argument that employers who provide healthcare are imbued with a new right of Corporate Religion to interfere with the healthcare of employees, it's time to complete healthcare reform by taking them entirely out of the loop with real, government-run universal healthcare.