In all the hysterical howling from the left about the modest Hobby Lobby ruling, a letter to the editor by one Emmett C. Stanton in the San Francisco Chronicle makes some very cogent points. I repeat them here. From the letter:
People choose to forget that when Obamacare passed so narrowly, it was in large part because the administration misled pro-life Democrats about its abortion and abortifacient coverage.
The legislation never would have passed if the regulation that the Department of Health and Human Services later imposed on employers had been included in the law itself. And, needless to say, Obamacare never would have passed if Congress had honestly chosen to exempt it from the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which it had the unquestioned power to do.
All the Supreme Court did was hold that RFRA – introduced in the House by Chuck Schumer, passed unanimously in the House and passed by a 97-3 vote in the Senate with the strong support of Ted Kennedy – trumped a mere administrative regulation.
This is what rational discourse looks like.