Indiana Loses Its Game and common sense suffers

This is from a op-Ed in the New York Times by Gail Collins, she is of course mocking Republicans in Indiana. Please read it carefully.

Pence did have another explanation for why Indiana needed a religious freedom law right now. He said he wanted to expand the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision, which held that corporations have the right to refuse to cover the cost of contraception under the Affordable Care Act. “With the Supreme Court’s ruling, the need for a RFRA at the state level became more important, as the federal law does not apply to states,” the governor wrote in The Wall Street Journal.

Think about that for a minute. Indiana passes a law that is widely regarded as a sop to the state’s social conservatives for their inability to ban same-sex marriage. The Republican establishment expresses dismay at this interpretation, and insists that its only intention was to deprive female residents of the right to get birth control.

Regardless of where you stand on this issue, you should be concerned more about the power of political correctness absent common sense and logic. You should be concerned that if you disagree with something favored by the political left, you will be crucified. There is only one right way and that’s their way … and we wonder why our President can’t compromise with Congress.

Does a person have a right to believe that marriage is between a man and women or don’t they? You don’t have to agree with them, but you sure as hell should defend their right to that point of view. Or maybe not, maybe America has become so intolerant that only the “correct” ideology is acceptable. Maybe the wealthy in America really are the cause of every ill facing the middle-class, maybe I should be able to blame someone else for everything I don’t have but am entitled to. Perhaps other taxpayers should bail me out for every dumb, short-sighted decision I make… or maybe not.

Let’s get back to the point I wanted to make about an ideology lacking common sense and more than willing to distort the facts and mislead through populist rhetoric. Look at the words I highlighted in the above quotation.. Do you get it?

Our open-minded columnist is not so cleverly linking the Hobby Lobby case on the requirement to pay for contraceptives to Indiana’s claim it was only trying to extent the ruling to state law.  But here is the best part and where the rhetoric catches the ear of those on a lookout for anti-left thinking behavior; “its only intention was to deprive female residents of the right to get birth control.”

Is there any law in the land that deprives women of the right to get birth control? Is there any law that prevents a woman from buying her own birth control or perhaps trading the cost of something else she would like to buy to pay for the pill? 

No matter, with her words the author has implanted the idea that somehow unless an employer and fellow employees pay for a women’s birth control she is being deprived. And let me tell you from experience, don’t point out that there is no reason to make this pill free or that it is illogical to make this drug free when important life saving drugs include a co-payment or that this is an easily affordable prescription even to those on Medicaid because if you do, you will be vilified as I was. When the wisdom of spending money on “free” contraception was challenged, the left conjured up a “war on women.”

So you see, those individuals who are so concerned with discrimination and intolerance have no tolerance for another point of view or for those who may point out the shortcomings in their thinking.