"... disagreeing with someone's rights does not entitle you to oppressing them." Both people and corporations need to learn this.

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COMMENTS: 
*  Citizens United is another decision that should be re-visited. Then Term Limits for Congress.
*  I do not shop at Hobby Lobby. because of Hobby Lobby's supreme court victory and its "in your face" stance on certain social issues. Hobby Lobby is a corporation so I never have to have any interaction with them, I can shop at another store. My tax dollars do not pay the salary of anyone at Hobby Lobby. However, my tax dollars do pay the salaries of government employees. A government employee can't decide to refuse tax-paying citizens government services because of their religious belief. Kay Davis broke the law.
*  Religion ruins everything. Just observe how divisive it is in everyday life in America. See how the people of the world are killing each other over meaningless religious trivia. It is all so obvious and sad. Religion is the mental illness of the world.
*  While I disagree with the ruling on the Hobby Lobby case, I feel compelled to point out that these are entirely unrelated cases. Hobby Lobby is a private company owned by devoutly religious people. The County Clerk's office in Kentucky is a government office. The owners of Hobby Lobby did not take an oath to uphold civil law, but the Clerk did. The owners of Hobby Lobby are not infringing on the civil rights of anyone, but the Clerk clearly is doing just that. The only similarity is that the employees of Hobby Lobby are free to seek another employer, as is the Clerk in Kentucky, if religion is an issue for them.
*  It is not the Believers that are mostly to blame for their immoral behavior; i t is the Churches and their ideology that terrorizes them from infancy to think and behave the way they do or roast in eternal flames ( a fate that can't be proven to be real).
*  To those who support Hobby Lobby, remember that no business operates independently from society. They would like you to think so when they demand all sorts of rights to discriminate or be exempt from the laws the rest of us must follow, but they all depend on taxpayer supported infrastructure--roads, sidewalks, utilities, fire and police protection, and so on. And many of those taxpayers are the very people they are demanding to discriminate against. If they think they are so independent and entitled then let them set up shop in the middle of nowhere with no infrastructure and no public access and see how many customers they get and how long they stay in business.
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Now that Kim Davis is in Jail, Let's Re-Think Hobby Lobby
By Sanjeev K. Sriram, September 5, 2015

In a homophobic political stunt poorly veiled in "religious beliefs," Rowan County, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis denied marriage licenses to LGBT couples despite a federal court order instructing her that the US Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, and she must comply. She claimed that issuing the licenses would be a violation of her "religious beliefs," continued to defy the law, and is now in jail for contempt of court. However, when Hobby Lobby had contempt for the reproductive health rights of its female employees, the US Supreme Court ruled Hobby Lobby did not have to comply with the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate because doing so would violate the "religious beliefs" of Hobby Lobby, a "person."

One person can dress up their homophobia in "religious belief" and be sent to jail, while another "person" can dress up misogyny in "religious belief" and receive the support of the highest court in the country. I know this is an oversimplification. There are probably many who will rush to the comments section trying to put me in my place with talk about how Hobby Lobby is a closely held corporate "person" in the private sector and Kim Davis is a public figure. Please know that I understand the legal reasoning involved. The reason I am making this argument on an editorial page and not in front of a judge is because I am appealing to my fellow Americans for whatever decency may exist in our court of public opinion. The legal distinctions of a public authority versus a private authority are easy to make when you are not the subject of either authority's homophobia, misogyny, or other discriminatory behavior. For these behaviors to be upheld in the case of Hobby Lobby and punished in the case of Kim Davis worsens discrimination by making it feel arbitrary: getting bullied by someone's Bible is okay, but only sometimes?

Women have a right to contraception under their basic human right to health care, and LGBT couples have a right to marriage under basic civil rights. None of these rights should be denied due to the whims of public or private authority's "religious freedoms." As Kim Davis sits in jail and Hobby Lobby enjoys "personhood," both need to learn that disagreeing with someone's rights does not entitle you to oppressing them.
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