But when people confront these clowns, their spell is broken and their hold on public consciousness is correspondingly diminished. If we want to see meaningful change, then we must become an instrument of that change ourselves.

WASHINGTON--The Supreme Court's divisions over contraception tore open again Thursday, when the three female justices accused an all-male court majority of going beyond the Hobby Lobby decision to interfere with insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan, filed a 17-page dissent to a court order allowing Wheaton College, a Christian institution in Illinois, to stop covering birth control without filing a form with its insurer asserting religious objections to emergency contraception.

The majority's order, which was unsigned, "risks depriving hundreds of Wheaton's employees and students of their legal entitlement to contraceptive coverage," she wrote. And because many other religious nonprofits have raised similar objections to birth control, the ruling "will presumably entitle hundreds or thousands of other objectors to the same remedy."

The form at issue, which requires insurance companies to cover the cost of contraceptives, is the mechanism the Department of Health and Human Services devised last year to exempt religious nonprofits from subsidizing contraceptives they find objectionable.

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"Wheaton believes that authorizing its [insurance administrator] to provide these drugs in Wheaton's place makes it complicit in grave moral evil," the college said in its injunction application filed Sunday with the court. "Wheaton can neither provide the mandated coverage nor execute and deliver" forms that prompt others to do so.

The college claims it can disregard the form under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a 1993 law providing exemptions from federal regulations that impose a substantial burden on free exercise of religion while serving no compelling governmental interest that cannot be achieved otherwise. The Hobby Lobby ruling turned on the religious freedom law.

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Justice Sotomayor wrote that filing a form can't be considered a "substantial burden."

"Wheaton is mistaken--not as a matter of religious faith, in which it is undoubtedly sincere, but as a matter of law," she wrote, adding the government's accommodation plan is the "least restrictive means of furthering the government's compelling interests in public health and women's well-being."

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Pffffffffttttt ...

And yes, I've heard all the lies and excuses.

Heard them?  C'mon, Jim ... don't be modest.  You've posted them!

Then there was the Enterprise tornado that destroyed the high school here and killed seven.  I got my daughter out of the school about 10 minutes before it was hit.  Bush's disapproval ratings were hitting the roof so he showed up here the next day for a photo op.  The same damn thing, the town ended up on mandatory curfew so the Pretzelnut could be safe.  We were trying to sort through disaster, find photos and pets before the next rain and this selfish Phuck can only think about his photo op.