I’ve given up trying to figure these people out.
If You Don’t Want to Pay for Abortion Pills You’re a Secessionist? — NRO
So says legal scholar Garrett Epps in The Atlantic. Alarmed by the Supreme Court’s recent stay in the Little Sisters of the Poor and Hobby Lobby cases, Mr. Epps actually writes this:
Taken together, these two cases aren’t claims for religious exemption. They are more like an ordinance of secession—a statement that religious bodies, and people, and even commercial businesses, no longer belong to society if they decide they’d rather not. The idea depends on an assumption that government itself is sinful, and presumptively illegitimate. If courts follow this notion, they risk making it impossible to have an effective government at all. And ineffective or weak government, as Peter Shane explained here a few weeks ago, was no part of the Founders’ vision for America.
I’m wondering which “Founders” he’s referring to. Surely not the same Founders that actually wrote the Free Exercise Clause — an explicit limit on federal power – as the first liberty in the Bill of Rights.