You're going to be completely stunned to find out that I think this is a complete and utter horseshit argument, on basically every level. And that's before I even get into the 'corporations are people' argument, which we can certainly tackle another time.
Look, there's a huge (yooge, in my best Mike Pesca voice) difference between being forced to do something, and being forced to pay for other people to do that thing.
For a long time in this country, you could be, essentially, forced to go to war. You could be drafted, consigned, and shipped away. Even then, there was conscientious objector status, and other ways you could prevent the government from forcing you to do something you found completely awful. But never, ever, ever, under any circumstances, would the government accept you deciding to not pay your taxes because you found the way in which that money was spent objectionable. Too effing bad - no matter how entious your conscience, you had to pay.
And that, in a nutshell, is my principal objection here. Nobody is telling the owners of Hobby Lobby that they have to take birth control. Nobody is forcing them to do anything. They are simply being asked to pay for something that we have all, in the personage of our elected representatives, decided is a valuable thing for us to have.
I object to all sorts of things the government does with my money, but I still have to pay it. Why does Hobby Lobby get an exemption from this requirement?
