Discussion: Hatch: If SCOTUS Rules Against Hobby Lobby I'll File Constitutional Amendment

system1 · May 28, 2014, 6:09pm

Discussion for article #223245

jasper · May 28, 2014, 6:19pm

Huzzah for the strict constitutionalists.

thedebunkifier · May 28, 2014, 6:24pm

Hatch thinks he isn’t a nut? To slimers like Hatch not being able to impose your religious beliefs on others is taking away the religious freedom of the extremities

littlegirlblue · May 28, 2014, 6:25pm

I guess they’re quaking in their boots over at SCOTUS because Orrin Hatch on a rampage is a pretty fearful sight.

pshipkey · May 28, 2014, 6:28pm

He’s got them magic underoos in a bunch…not a pretty sight.

magical_panda · May 28, 2014, 6:29pm

Good. Keep up the anti-gay fight. It’s your party that’s getting hammered over it as long as you choose to fight it.

stephen_maturin · May 28, 2014, 6:30pm

Is that the sound of size 6 1/2 wingtips I hear stamping?

estamm · May 28, 2014, 6:32pm

Yes, that evil Supreme Court is totally dominated by the lefties.

alyoshakaramazov · May 28, 2014, 6:32pm

Yes, Orrin, you do that.

You do that.

teenlaqueefa · May 28, 2014, 6:32pm

This ranks up there with Bush claiming to plan to amend the constitution to proclaim marriage only be between a man and a woman.

Ha Ha.

thenme · May 28, 2014, 6:35pm

At first, I thought that Sen. Orrin Hatch speaking on religious freedom to impose yours on others in Wood Cross, Utah was simply more messing with us.

Actually, if we can trust Wikipedia in this instance, it’s Woods Cross, named after Daniel Wood, an early settler in those parts. I’m sure it’s an interesting story why the apostrophe was left out of the city’s name and equally sure that Orrin Hatch has reached an age where he could tell it.

clearwater · May 28, 2014, 6:36pm

“Religious freedom is what keeps us free almost more than anything else.”

Fuck. All this time I thought it was guns…

fgs · May 28, 2014, 6:37pm

If slavery were still legal, Hobby Lobby would own lots of them. They might well treat them better than the WalMart or McDonalds plantations, taking full public credit for their relative generosity of course, but their dominion would be unchallenged and unmistakable.

doninsd · May 28, 2014, 6:40pm

Let’s see now…“religious freedom” means free not only to practice religion, but free from religion, if so chosen. I look at it like the LGBT issue: You are free to practice your religion, and your sexual preference, as you choose, and I will gladly defend your right to do so, as long as you don’t try to convert me.
Don’t see how that needs improvement.

doremus_jessup · May 28, 2014, 6:47pm

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act was never intended to apply to incorporated businesses.

sergeant2 · May 28, 2014, 6:51pm

If there’s a politician in Washington D.C. that can give Mitch McConnell a run for the money as the most dishonest, despicable and corporate owned politician to ever set foot in our nations capital, its Orrin Hatch.

topcat · May 28, 2014, 6:53pm

“And I believe I can put one on that everybody in this country, except the nuts, will support.”

So if you’re NOT misogynistic or homophobic – you’re a nut???

How I wish I could tell him to F*CK himself.

maxaroo · May 28, 2014, 6:57pm

“I shouldn’t talk like that, but I’ve reached an age that I can say whatever I want. Especially because it’s true,” he continued.

Yes, it is true you are an old coot.

imkmu3 · May 28, 2014, 7:02pm

Proceed Senator.

blueberrytomatosoup · May 28, 2014, 7:04pm

The Hobby Lobby case is anti-women, not anti-gay. You need to keep your “groups republicans hate” straight.