The US Supreme Court\u2019s ruling in favor of protecting religious freedom for private business owners is on par with arguments favoring race-based segregation in South Africa and the United States in the past, according to National Organization for Women president Terry O\u2019Neill.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s really important to remember apartheid in South Africa was justified on religious grounds; the Southern Baptist Convention justified slavery, and later Jim Crow and segregation, on religious grounds,\u201d O\u2019Neill said on MSNBC on Monday. \u201cThere are some religious beliefs we no longer honor in our government, and the Supreme Court is simply wrong to honor gender bigotry that Hobby Lobby stores and Conestoga Wood are promoting.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s bigotry to keep women away from having basic health care,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Later, columnist Connie Schultz also lamented the Court\u2019s ruling. \u201cAs a Christian, I am so offended by the notion that to be a Christian means you want to harm women,\u201d she said. – National Review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The US Supreme Court\u2019s ruling in favor of protecting religious freedom for private business owners is on par with arguments favoring race-based segregation in South Africa and the United States in the past, according to National Organization for Women president Terry O\u2019Neill. \u201cI think it\u2019s really important to remember apartheid in South Africa was justified … Continue reading “NOW president likens Hobby Lobby ruling to apartheid, Jim Crow”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[164,9389,8227,638],"class_list":["post-14575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-apartheid","tag-hobby-lobby","tag-jim-crow","tag-supreme-court"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14576,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14575\/revisions\/14576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}