The SCOTUS Decision for Hobby Lobby.

In one of the most monumental, and horribly flawed, decisions in Supreme Court history, five of the Justices stated that a corporation has the right to limit what birth control under the ACA a woman has access too. Hobby Lobby's owners are against four of sixteen contraceptives stating they are "abortion inducing" (not entirely true), but the decision is not based on those individual owner's rights, but the entirety of the corporation known as Hobby Lobby.

Hobby Lobby is a CORPORATION, not a PERSON. A corporation does not, should not, and cannot have human or Constitutional rights. That is the entire argument against the partisan, paid for members of the SCOTUS. They have elevated corporations, a business entity designed to make profits and goods, to the level of a living person. Hobby Lobby cannot pray, it cannot go to war, it cannot give birth, it cannot bleed, it cannot empathize, it cannot vote.

Only people can.

The decisions by the SCOTUS and our Congress elevating corporations to personhood have dehumanized the citizens while humanizing the corporations.

I support the OWNERS of Hobby Lobby the Constitutionally protected right to their spiritual beliefs. But once those owners started a business, one that is part of the social fabric of the United States and thereby is inclusive of the entire citizenry of the nation, their beliefs can go no further than their homes and hearts.

Can you imagine, just imagine, if Walmart, who employs 2.1 million people decided that because of the family's religious beliefs that Muslims could not be employed by them? Think on that for a moment. (FYI, several companies have already filed to exclude Gays, Muslims, and others under the SCOTUS decision...Pandora's Box is open).

There is only one organization that can be religious, a Church. But then again corporations might as well declare themselves as such because they don't pay taxes anymore, they now can opt out of Federal mandates, and they don't have to follow the same tax laws that citizens do.

We are not a Corporate Theocracy, but it seems that radical elements in our Federal government, backed by banks and corporations, are bound and determined to make us one no matter what rights are destroyed and how citizens are dehumanized.

This 4th of July 2014

Today, the 4th of July, we are celebrating the most diverse nation in the world founded on the values of freedom from tyranny. We are an imperfect, young, nation who has and still is making mistakes.

Our nation is going through its greatest crisis with corporations and banks fully in control of our government and two Party system. But like all things we shall overcome the inequality and rampant destruction of our freedom and ability to accept diversity.

The American people are waking up to the disease of bigotry, ignorance, and selfish greed. The vast majority want honesty, fairness, and compassion and no more war, hatred, and lies.

We must all band together to make this happen. Blacks, Whites, Native Americans, Europeans, Christians, Jews, Muslims. No matter the label we are all Americans who want to live our lives in a fair way, an honest way, to care for ourselves, our families, and make the world better for our children and grandchildren.

Celebrate this day of freedom not for the mistakes of the past nor the problems of the present, but for the promise of the future.