The Supreme Court’s ruling to side with Hobby Lobby and protect corporations from having to violate their religious beliefs did not go over well with Democrats and left-leaning commentators and organizations. Several took to Twitter to express their outrage in rather dramatic fashion:
#SCOTUS ruling on #HobbyLobby is wrong! Your Boss will now get in your personal business. I've lost faith in the Supreme Court.
— Donna Brazile (@donnabrazile) June 30, 2014
The Supreme Court #HobbyLobby ruling proves once again that Scalia Law is a lot like Sharia Law.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) June 30, 2014
I feel sick.
— Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) June 30, 2014
BREAKING: pic.twitter.com/k6mArt1V5Z
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) June 30, 2014
This isn't a win for religious liberty it's an affirmation of privilege for advocates of conservative sexual morality http://t.co/ctb1FwXIWk
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) June 30, 2014
#SCOTUS #HobbyLobby decision goes out of its way to declare that discrimination against women isn’t discrimination. #NotMyBossBusiness
— NARAL (@NARAL) June 30, 2014
Make no mistake: Today, once again, the Supreme Court ruled against American women. #notmybossbusiness
— Planned Parenthood Action (@PPact) June 30, 2014
It’s unbelievable that in 2014, we’re still fighting about whether women should have access to birth control. #notmybossbusiness
— Planned Parenthood Action (@PPact) June 30, 2014
this #SCOTUS ruling punishes women for menstruating, punishes women who want to have sex responsibly, puts religion over workers.
— 🔥Double Dee👠👠 (@DCdebbie) June 30, 2014
https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/statuses/483643126267920384
MSNBC contributor and Democratic strategist Jimmy Williams offered his own series of hysterical tweets, equating the decision to the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling:
Five men just told women all across America that their employers decide anything they want about their bodies.
— jimmy williams (@Jimmyspolitics) June 30, 2014
Any woman who voted 4 Bush was just told her rt 2 make her own healthcare decisions is no longer her right. It's her employer's decision.
— jimmy williams (@Jimmyspolitics) June 30, 2014
Scotus Hobby Lobby decision most sweeping assault on privacy/equal rts since Plessy. Biz reigns over humans now law of the land.
— jimmy williams (@Jimmyspolitics) June 30, 2014
Top Democratic members of Congress also weren’t shy in voicing their frustration with the ruling:
It's time that five men on the Supreme Court stop deciding what happens to women.
— Senator Harry Reid (@SenatorReid) June 30, 2014
Allowing CEOs to limit the medical procedures available to employees is a gross violation of workers’ religious rights. #NotMyBossBusiness
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) June 30, 2014
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/statuses/483639361003479041
Can't believe we live in a world where we'd even consider letting big corps deny women access to basic care based on vague moral objections.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) June 30, 2014
Disturbed by #HobbyLobby decision allowing some CEOs to deny women employees contraceptive care based on religious belief #notmybossbusiness
— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) June 30, 2014
#SCOTUS decision on #HobbyLobby unbelievable. Medical decisions are still #NotMyBossBusiness pic.twitter.com/6sxB2XPyBg
— Louise Slaughter (@louiseslaughter) June 30, 2014