A group of clergy handed out condoms to customers in front of an Illinois Hobby Lobby store on Wednesday, staging a creative, faith-based protest against the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to grant the craft store giant religious exemptions from the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate.
The action, which was reportedly initiated by a local United Church of Christ (UCC) minister in Aurora, Illinois, included representatives from the UCC, the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), and Planned Parenthood. Hobby Lobby’s health care plan covers male condoms and various other forms of contraception — and its case to the Supreme Court had to do with other kinds of measures to prevent pregnancy — but the religious leaders said the protest was ultimately about exposing the multiplicity of religious beliefs around contraception.
“I’m just hoping that (people who see the demonstration) realize that this opinion (of Hobby Lobby’s owners) is not the opinion of religious people as a broad spectrum, but that religious people have many different opinions,” Rev. Emmy Lou Belcher, a UUA minister who was at the protest, told the Daily Herald.
There are a lot of self-defeating and stupid things that the alleged leftish media, old and new, share in common with the corporate media, so frequently it is the disappearing of religious liberals, whose existence is inconvenient for both of those two allegedly opposed, actually conjoined, ideological positions. You can look around at Alternet, Salon, the pseudo-left blogs to see that they're running towards the same goal, only the pseudo-left doesn't seem to understand where that is located. Those things work against the real left, but the pseudo-left hardly notices that. You'd think they'd have caught on in the past forty years, but, no.
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