“I’m just hoping that (people who see the demonstration) realize that this opinion (of Hobby Lobby’s owners) is not the opinion of religious people as a broad spectrum, but that religious people have many different opinions,” Rev. Emmy Lou Belcher, a UUA minister who was at the protest, told the Daily Herald.

It doesn't matter if one's objection to a law is based on any universally accepted doctrine. All that matters apparently is whether it's an affront to one's sincerely held religious belief, a completely unassailable and subjective standard. What's going to stop some other corporation from using the identical argument to ban vaccine coverage, transfusions, etc. What about some right wing group claiming that their religious beliefs are trampled if they have to hire minorities?

I haven't heard of any local comments on the SCOTUS decision here, either from secular, religious or political groups. Yet I plan to ask around a bit this weekend. I have a friend (female) who's very active in the UU church. And there's a Democratic Party BBQ in town this weekend.

and trying to outdo each other in showing contempt for Hobby Lobby NOW. Hobby Lobby has been doing what it's doing, making these arguments and trying to impose these policies, for years. Where was the UCC all that time? Why are they only now creeping out of the woodwork after the real damage is done? Where were they when it would have actually made a difference?

The plain truth is, this is naked self-interest by the UCC..an attempt to try to distance themselves from the ugliness of so much of organized religion, and to preserve their own reputation..basically "Thank you god, that we're not like those other Xstians!" It's certainly nothing they deserve praise for.

http://www.ucc.org/news/news-free-religion-lawsuit-04292014.html

It's a PR move. They don't even attempt to deny it.

Feel free. I belong to organizations that have been fighting this kind of religious intrusion for years, not just for an ineffectual PR stunt after the damage has been done.

I've heard the UCC bashed many times over the years, and I've never understood the complaints.

Hell, the UCC has been so demonized over the years that some TV networks refuse to even run their ads.

Their money isn't green enough for some folks, which I really can't understand. Their money has "In God We trust" written on it just like everybody else's money.

What is the cause of all this anger directed towards the UCC?

I really don't get it. Can you explain it?

Why are you lying about what I've said? They simply deserve no credit or attention for a self-promoting, self-interested PR stunt pulled long after any effort that might have actually done some good in this case.

More work on your comprehension is warranted.

And P.S.? Unitarian Universalism isn't even a Christian denomination, and they were also involved.

And where have THEY been for all of the time that Hobby Lobby was pushing this through the courts?

http://www.uua.org/reproductive/

If the anti-choice thugs can scream and harass clinic patients, certainly we can peacefully hand out contraception in front of Hobby Lobby.