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The Absurdity Of The Hobby Lobby Case

In case you missed it, Patrick Deneen’s TAC essay about the absurdity of the Hobby Lobby case before SCOTUS is quite likely the best thing you’ll read on the issue. Excerpt: I hope Hobby Lobby wins its case. But we should not deceive ourselves for a minute that what we are seeing is the contestation […]

In case you missed it, Patrick Deneen’s TAC essay about the absurdity of the Hobby Lobby case before SCOTUS is quite likely the best thing you’ll read on the issue. Excerpt:

I hope Hobby Lobby wins its case. But we should not deceive ourselves for a minute that what we are seeing is the contestation between a religious corporation and a secular State. We are seeing, rather, the culminating absurdity of what Polanyi called the “utopia” of our modern economic disembedding—the absurdity of a chain store representing the voice of religion in the defense of life amid an economy and polity that values turning people and nature into things. Our entire economy is an education in how to be “pro-choice.” What it most certainly is not in any way, shape or form, is about helping us to understand our true condition as embedded human beings.

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