The SCOTUS and Congressional debacle

The SCOTUS recently declared that it's okay for businesses to decide what kind of health care coverage to allow for their employees when it comes to contraceptives.

Hobby Lobby declared that it was infringing on their religious beliefs to force them to provide money to insurance companies who will assist women who opt to receive contraception.

O.o

Paint me a skeptic, but this was more than just a infringement on contraception rights.  It was a move to once again attempt to underhandedly move one's morals ahead of another's.  According to SCOTUS, it's apparently okay for businesses to make that decision "because they're paying for it."

Bullshit.

First off: the pendulum that has afforded business and "Christian" organizations the rights they presently enjoy have swung incredibly off the map.  The power and influence these two sides have in our daily lives has become tragically apparent.  It's not what the founders believed in as they would argue that not only should there be a very strong line dividing church and state, they would also reject the idea that "businesses are people too."

The unfortunate rulings by the SCOTUS have impacted and interfered in the role capitalism and Christianity plays in today's society.  They are seeking to become protectionists for systems that are corrupt, flawed, immoral and fundamentally wrong.

It's not the role of the SCOTUS or that of Congress or American government to have a direct relationship with corporations and businesses that are set out to change and redefine the role of capitalism in our society.  Instead of saying: "we shouldn't be involved here," the SCOTUS has openly embraced the intervention into the way these systems operate in our society.  I have no problem with them intervening as a matter of law, but ascribing rights to entities that can't vote seems contra-intuitive.

It's not the role of the SCOTUS to decide one's morality or bestow that right with the employers or organizations that decide that for others.  The protections of this country guarantee a PERSON to decide how they should or shouldn't believe.  It's an individual right that has been stripped from the dialogue and now placed with a bastardized protection scheme that has been misapplied despite it's original intent.

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act was designed as a protective cover for Native Americans to have a greater amount of religious freedom on their land.  Since the Hobby Lobby ruling, experts now debate that the RFRA has exposed some deep flaws in how laws protect religion and the citizenry.

Just like Congress, the SCOTUS has become a hack for those that want to exploit the flawed laws that pass through Washington.  Instead of being a disinterested, apolitical, unbiased entity that forges an independent mindset, SCOTUS has become a myopic polarizing gang seeking to further political causes (conservative and liberal alike) while providing outs like the RFRA and granting the rights to corporations just like they were citizens.

Think on that for a bit.

We are giving rights to entities by which do not exist.  (Corporations)
We are also giving rights to entities that want no government intervention, but they have no problems influencing the electorate as they see fit. (Religious entities)

Those that decry "big government" are actively exploiting the loopholes that keep turning out bad law and bad rights that ultimately affect all of us.

Hypocrisy knows no bounds and yet no one cares anymore about being a lying sack of shit.

Our three tiered government has failed us.  A system that was supposed to protect this country from making horrible laws and bad decisions has continually demonstrated (in recent times) that special interests, corporations and religious entities are the real "victims" here.

A society that prides itself with its incredibly fabled superiority could have such great promise if it weren't for the continual greed and infection of those that have no inclination to participate - much less improve upon the work established by our ancestors.  Instead of doing what's best and right, we only seek to protect our own because that's what isolationists want.

Change has got to happen.
Change has got to be real and total.

End the hypocrisy and lies.
Become the source of change and an instrument of good.

Together, we can.  The question becomes: will we?