So, the SCOTUS sided with Hobby Lobby

[FatAndFaithless]

I read a summary of it, and I believe the biggest thing they argued for was that their 'expression of religious freedom' (i.e., not funding the morning after pill) did not operate contra to governmental interest (it didn't put anyone's life in danger, prevent them from receiving treatment, etc) especially because Hobby Lobby still funds 16 other forms of cotnraception. I don't think jehovah's witnesses could argue the same about blood transfusions, since that literally is denying treatment, nor Catholic companies complaining about condoms, since they in and of themselves prevent disease.

This was shared on my fb, thought it was an interesting tack on the ruling:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/201...t_but.html

That’s why I see this entire thing as something of an embarrassment for the religious right. Ever since the lawsuits began over the HHS contraception coverage mandate, the claim has been that the attacks are not about sex but about religion—which presumably has broader implications than simply resenting women's sexual liberation. But this decision limits the employer's religious reach exclusively to judgments about the employee's personal use of her own vagina, and no further. "This decision concerns only the contraceptive mandate and should not be understood to mean that all insurance mandates, that is for blood transfusions or vaccinations, necessarily fail if they conflict with an employer's religious beliefs," Alito writes.

This feels like an extremely reductive view of religion: As simply a way to codify reactionary beliefs about human sexuality. Or, as Atrios put it on Twitter, "religion is now only about unapproved fucking." And it’s ultimately not good for the religious right to have one of its own—Alito—limit the scope of legitimate religious grousing to matters of sexuality, as if religion has nothing else going for it. Hobby Lobby may have won this battle. But it won at the price of portraying the Christian right as little more than a movement of sex-obsessed busybodies.

Totally agree with that. They won on paper but made themselves look like asses. Though, knowing them they would try to regulate anything to do with asses as well...