Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX), who launched a strange, unsuccessful primary bid to unseat Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) this year, warned this week that the Hobby Lobby ruling shows that “liberals seek to drag us back to Stone Age tribalism.”
“Today is a great victory for religious freedom in America, which has been severely under attack by the anti-freedom Left and its special interest groups,” Stockman said in a Monday statement. “It is ironic for the Left to scream no interference in a woman’s decision to obtain contraceptives, but then to argue the government should interfere in that decision to fulfill a supposed ‘inherent’ right to contraceptives.”
Stockman then argued that the health care law’s contraception mandate goes against what it means to live in a civilization.
“Civilization is a society in which the rights of the individual trump the whims of the majority. This ruling is a reminder liberals seek to drag us back to Stone Age tribalism in which one can be subjugated to the tribe as a whole,” he said. “The belief people can be forced to buy you something that violates their beliefs is the height of arrogance, greed, selfishness and brute force. The Court rejected that tribal belief and upheld the ideas upon which this nation was founded. You are an individual and no one owns your mind or conscience.”
[H/t Raw Story]
Today is a great day for GOP projection.
Had the interview gone just a bit longer, he might have divulged,
“The left has had a terrible couple of months lately.”
“The left hasn’t been home to see his wife and kids in ages, since being at home with them makes the left incredibly depressed.”
“The left is having a hard time scraping together funds to pay the cable bill ever since that fateful day when the left made some regrettable decisions at the race track.”
“The left hasn’t gone more than 8 hours without a drink in I don’t know how long.”
“The left has a splitting headache today. Excuse the left while the left goes to find some ibuprofen.”
If anyone is an expert on Stoneage Tribalism, it would have to be Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Troglodyte-TX)
Now that’s some pretty insane reasoning. Tribalism??? What about the rights of the women that seeks those forms of birth control? The lunacy that corporation are like people with religious rights is a dangerous path the troglodytes of the Court’s 5-4 majority are sending this country into.
Surely these guys must have a data bank of absurd pronouncements.
There’s just no other explanation.
Its beyond insane reasoning. This ruling did absolutely nothing for an individual’s religious freedom. The ruling cleared the way for those with financial power to deny rights of others.
If anything, this ruling furthered the cause of Tribalism. Abide by federal regulations? HA! Nothing shall infringe upon the Tribal Authority of Hobby Lobby! (at least till we go public, then we have to go back to court to ensure our rights continue, regardless of ownership issues).