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Missouri lawmaker wants courts to keep his adult daughters off of birth control

There really isn't an end to the batshit insanity the combination of Obamacare and ladies' sexy time has created in the right.

State Rep. Paul Joseph Wieland and his wife Teresa are suing the Obama administration over its minimum coverage requirements for health plans under the Affordable Care Act, which includes contraception. They say the government is forcing them to violate their religious beliefs because they have three daughters, ages 13, 18 and 19, who are on their parents’ plan and might get birth control at no additional cost. […]

“The employees are to Hobby Lobby what the daughters are to Paul and Teresa Wieland,” Timothy Belz, an attorney from the conservative Thomas More Society, who represents the Wielands, told a panel of three federal judges on the appeals court in St. Louis on Monday. A district court had dismissed the case, saying the Wielands lacked standing to sue.

Belz also said that making birth control more accessible under health plans was "as though the federal government had passed an edict that said that parents much [sic] provide a stocked unlocked liquor cabinet in their house whenever they're away for their minor and adult daughters to use, and Mormons came in and objected to that. It is exactly the same situation."

Sure, why not. Exactly the same. It should work for the Supreme Court. After all, the infamous "broccoli mandate" worked with Scalia.

When one of the judges pointed out to the Weilands that maybe that had more influence over their children's actions and were the people who probably should be making sure their daughters abided by their religious beliefs, the attorney replied "Well, we all have high hopes for our kids, that is true. We all expect and want them to obey us, they don't always …" Yes, the Weilands are trying to make the courts responsible for enforcing their religious beliefs on their children. Their adult children.

Well, of course that's not what Weiland is really doing. Weiland is playing politics, maybe even trying to set himself up for a run at a higher office someday. He wants to get his name on an anti-Obamacare case that makes it to the Supreme Court. The crazy thing is, it's not out of the realm of possibility. Plenty of legal experts thought that Hobby Lobby was patently ridiculous, and look where we are now.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/10/1328713/-Missouri-lawmaker-wants-courts-to-keep-his-adult-daughters-off-of-birth-control