Hey, I called it.

Of course, these businesses should be exempt! I shouldn't have to hire Lutherans. I was raised Catholic, you can't oppress me in such a way. I also have religious objections with atheists; as an agnostic, they all seem a bit too 'cock sure' of themselves. It's my right not to associate with them. Anything else would be tyranny. I don't think I should have to send my kid to school with Pentecostals either, I am not sure why, but my family has a right to religious freedom. I should be able to find a school that doesn't let them in. I definitely shouldn't have to hire any Republicans, or children of Supreme Court judges either. Or people from Malta, or people that buy burgundy Buicks, or people that use double negatives, or the word 'literally' too often.

These are not intellectually honest decisions being made in the SCOTUS. Religious freedom in the US has never been absolute, and it's absurd to think that now it should be. The functions of a democratic State seeking to treat all citizens equally supersede religious practices in the public sphere when the exercise of public services is in question. You can't religiously object to my equal treatment under the law. The Hobby Lobby decision wiped away what lines of common sense there were, and we are left with little but the personal preference of those that are in power. It was a stupid, short-sighted, and cynical decision.