Now that the Supreme Court has decided to take up the contraceptive mandate in Obamacare, the question before it is whether corporations have religious rights. That just makes me laugh out loud, and would no doubt make Thomas Jefferson spin in his Monticello grave.

When, pray tell, did we all lose our minds?

The court, in case you missed the news, agreed to hear two cases challenging the birth control mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Each of these cases was brought by a secular, profit-making company seeking an exemption on religious grounds.

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