You want to know how the Hobby Lobby case made it to the Supreme Court?

[theHandpuppet]

Okay, I'm going to post this one more time.

Legal challenges to the HHS mandate:
http://www.becketfund.org/hhsinformationcentral/

[HockeyMom]

1. Follow the money of the Catholic Church

Very ironic since their own women using birth control and the majority agree with the mandate.

[ColesCountyDem]

2. You do know that Hobby Lobby CEO David Green is a Southern Baptist, and not a Catholic?

FYI.

[HockeyMom]

4. Reading the list of who are suing

Lot of Catholic organization.

[theHandpuppet]

6. Yep.

http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/religious-liberty/hhs-mandate/hhs-mandate-legal-resources.cfm

HHS Mandate Legal Resources

Here, you can find more in-depth materials and analysis of the HHS mandate and its implications, including the narrow exemption and proposed “accommodation” for certain employers, as well as information on the lawsuits filed around the country by Catholic and non-Catholic entities seeking to preserve their religious liberty.

Litigation Resources

Dozens of lawsuits have been filed around the country opposing the HHS mandate. Many of these lawsuits. . . were filed by Catholic dioceses, Catholic schools and universities, Catholic health systems, and Catholic charitable organizations that have been forced to facilitate and fund activities that violate their religious and moral convictions. Other lawsuits. . . have been filed by plaintiffs—both Catholic and non-Catholic—who also oppose the HHS mandate. In the first court ruling to address the religious liberty merits, the plaintiffs—Catholics who run a family-owned business—won a preliminary injunction against the HHS mandate. Many more businesses have won similar relief.

Please pray for the continuing efforts of those seeking to vindicate their constitutional and statutory rights to religious liberty.

Also see, for example:
http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/ewtn-state-of-alabama-file-new-lawsuit-against-hhs-mandate/
http://www.becketfund.org/hhs/
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/12/17/catholic-groups-win-battle-against-hhs-mandate-in-federal-court/

[ColesCountyDem]

8. Excue me for making a factually accurate point about the lead plaintiff.

I'll never do so again. My apologies.

[theHandpuppet]

5. I do hope you took a look at the entire list of lawsuits

Discrimination makes for interesting bedfellows.

http://www.usccb.org/news/2014/14-024.cfm

[theHandpuppet]

3. When women in the church have finally had enough...

... and demand equal rights within the RCC, only then will it not be business as usual. But women will not be granted that power willingly and will have to fight for and demand it.

[SheilaT]

7. And within every other religion/church just about.

Southern Baptists have a lot of anti-women doctrine. So does pretty much all of Islam. Orthodox Jewry. The list of religions that actually consider women full equals to men is pretty short.

And yes, as long as women willingly stay within any religion that considers them inferior in any way, those religions will continue to thrive.