Non-Theist Organization: Repeal The Law That Gave Hobby Lobby A Win

The nation’s top non-theist organization is urging Congress to repeal the law that enabled Hobby Lobby to win its “religious freedom” case at the Supreme Court this week. 

The Freedom From Religion Foundation has placed a full page an in today’s New York Times telling Congress it’s time to repeal the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act, signed by President Bill Clinton. Unlike “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and the Defense of Marriage Act — both of which he signed then urged their repeal years later — Clinton has not weighed in on this law.

“Featuring an arresting portrait of birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger, whose motto was ‘No Gods — No Masters,’ the ad criticizes the ‘all-male, all-Roman Catholic majority’ on the Supreme Court for putting ‘religious wrongs over women’s rights,'” the FFRF says in a statement.

“Allowing employers to decide what kind of birth control an employee can use is not, as the Supreme Court ruled, an ‘exercise of religion.’ It is an exercise of tyranny. Employers should have no right to impose their religious beliefs upon workers,” reads the ad.

“Dogma should not trump our civil liberties.”

FFRF has taken the lead in calling for the repeal of RFRA.

“None of our civil rights, established after decades and decades of struggle and education, will be safe until RFRA is overturned,” commented Annie Laurie Gaylor, FFRF co-president. She called the Supreme Court decision “outrageous and untenable.”

You can see a PDF of the full-size of the ad or a smaller version below:

 

Hat tip: Joe Jervis