Stanek Sunday funnies, “Hobby Lobby” edition
What a week, eh? Don’t forget when you worship today to thank God for His mercy in protecting the religious freedom of American business owners through the Supreme Court’s June 30 Hobby Lobby/Conestoga Wood decision, which also affirmed Life.
Here were my top five seven favorite political cartoons on that topic. Be sure to vote for your fav in the poll at the bottom of this post!
by Rick McKee at Cagle.com… 
by Stilton Jarlsberg at HopeNChangeCartoons.com…
by Chip Bok at Townhall.com…
by Glenn McCoy at Townhall.com…
by Walt Handelsman at GoComics.com…
by Gary Varvel at Townhall.com…
by Joe Liccar at EditorialCartoonists.com…
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Cartoons aside…have you guys heard some of the libs are walking the streets chanting about satan and this issue they just cant let go? God help. My favorite…stay out of my uterus. I will and because its YOUR uterus dont ask me to pay for your BC or abortion! Simple really.
I’m voting for #3 this week.
As the dust settles on Hobby Lobby, the number one bottom line is that we need to get rid of and be done with employer based health insurance. Nobody likes it anymore. The conservatives want to get rid of it. The liberals should have even extra incentive now to get rid of it. The solutions of the final plan will differ – but this giant experiment of employer based coverage doesn’t work, and this whole decision will make a massive mess that will further prove that.
Hopefully Hillary can be the one to get it done – I personally think the system is going to have to see increasing costs for a while more to be convinced – but maybe towards the end of her second term.
Does anyone share the awareness of Distributism and its principles? GK Chesterton & Hillaire Belloc? Authentic Catholic Social Justice principles?
I second the proposal by Ex-GOP: We must get away from employer-based insurance. It is just another chain for wage-slavery. It is a barrier to persons who want to start their own family businesses.
But the alternative should not be government-based insurance. Shifting our healthcare decisions from Big Business to Big Government is not a step toward independence.
Health insurance should be like auto insurance. I don’t need auto insurance to pay for my gasoline and oil changes — I need auto insurance to protect my investment from catastrophic damage.
I don’t need health insurance for birth control and check ups and consultations and antibiotics. I would rather choose my doctor, the one who serves my community, and visit his/her family business/clinic.
I need health insurance to protect against catastrophic illnesses and injuries and hospitalization. Not the routine stuff. Health care will cost less when we don’t health insurance to cover so much.
Oh… the cartoons!
McCoy/Statue of Dependence made me laugh. But the fist bump infant by Liccar touched my heart, so it got my vote.
Del – agree with you 100% if you can tell me what do with people who don’t choose to buy insurance – the free loaders. Do we raise taxes on the rest of us to cover their lack of personal responsibility? Do we let them die? Or are you saying you are willing to mandate catastrophic coverage – and fine or imprison those who don’t purchase? Or universal care for that?
I suppose that I have no problem with mandating people to buy major medical/hospitalization insurance — just as we compel drivers to carry liability insurance, and Obamacare mandates that everyone carry full-coverage/comprehensive healthcare insurance.
But if we ever had a Distributist reform of health CARE, the problem of un-INSURED persons should be part of the debate. I’ll form a firm opinion then.
All I know is that current health CARE costs too much because there is too much INSURANCE already.
Del –
Need some clarification on what you consider to be “insurance” – do you mean insurance companies, or coverage? For instance, do you think Germany/France/Australia/Japan have more insurance because they have more coverage, or less insurance because they don’t have the traditional insurance model that we do?
I like most of these very well, but #2 is offensive. I know plenty of very craftsy (and lovely) liberals who were upset by this judgment. I wouldn’t want to antagonize them without cause.
“Insurance” happens when we all put our money together for a risk or purpose, and those who encounter the purpose take money out for “covered costs.”
It does not matter whether the money is collected and held and administrated by Big Government or Big Business. A Distributist recognizes that Big Gov/Big Bizz are in partnership together — against families and family businesses.
Distributism is therefore opposed to both capitalism and socialism. It is a sane and middle way between them.
Go ahead — google “Distributism.”
Del – yeah, I suppose I’d just challenge that more insurance/coverage is why we’re paying more – we pay more than all those places that I mentioned, and I would think you’d argue they all are in the wrong direction of where you would want to go.
MaryRose, I don’t think I even understand cartoon #2. What is it even trying to say? It seems to mostly just be implying that liberal women are grotesquely made-up and tattooed? I mean, even if that were true, how would it be relevant? It is just a truly bizarre image with no meaning that I can discern – I don’t really understand how it qualifies as a “funny,” much less a political cartoon. Am I missing something?
Alexandra,
I interpreted it as, basically, the liberals reacting to this decision are all ugly deformed and not the type to give HL their business anyway so it’s ironic that they’r threatening a boycott.
In actuality, some of the most adamant diy types I know are libs. Some are conservatives. It seems to spread across party lines fairly evenly, from casual observation anyway.
For the liberals, it is not really about Hobby Lobby. The Supreme Court decision will not inconvenience anyone enough to notice a change in their lives.
For liberals, it is about controlling the dialogue. They need to keep up the drone that “Republicans hate women” and the Christians want to cut off the supply of our culture’s favorite addiction.
The liberal gospel has run out of dreams. “Hope and Change” has become a laugh-line. We have seen the best that liberals can do to us concerning healthcare. The last dream that liberalism offers is “free contraception.”
That’s not enough to win elections.
So liberals are selling themselves at the last defense against those demons, the Christians and Republicans. Hobby Lobby is now a symbol, just as Chik-Fil-A was. They hope to capture the public’s imagination by symbolically opposing Hobby Lobby.
Ex-GOP Voter says:
July 6, 2014 at 5:54 pm
Del – yeah, I suppose I’d just challenge that more insurance/coverage is why we’re paying more – we pay more than all those places that I mentioned, and I would think you’d argue they all are in the wrong direction of where you would want to go.
Distributism is not about getting the cheapest stuff. We are about living the best that we can… even if we have to pay more for it.
We believe that the best healthcare is provided by a local doctor and his family-owned clinic. A personal relationship with a physician who serves our local community. (Basically, the healthcare model in America that existed before HMO’s and big insurance.)
Distributism believes that we live better by enjoying local relationships. Getting our healthcare from Massive HMO or Big Med Bureaucracy is cheaper, but less than satisfactory.
In general and regarding everything, Distributism believes that we should identify what is best for families — then work toward it.
The Distributist culture does not aim to be a rich society. We aim to be a happy society.
Our primary concern these days regards education: This is the topic that affects the most families and the most deeply. We see that parents are the primary educators of children, the ones who are most invested in seeing the children thrive. So we want taxes and programs to favor homeschooling above all else.
Since many families will not be able to homeschool, we urge the support of private schools and neighborhood cooperatives as much as possible. These are chosen by parents and are the most responsive to the needs and desires of parents.
The least desirable education is the public school, which serves the government agenda (abetted by the teachers union), indoctrinating our children with values contrary to the best that the parents desire to hand down to their beloved children for their thriving and success. The public schools are less interested in educating our kids.
That’s what it seemed like it must be to me too, MaryRose. It just seems bizarre and, like, so beside the point. Like you, I know tons of crafty women who are liberal, but even needing to say that just seems absurd. Oh well.
I went to the site that the image came from and it seems equally unhinged and beside-the-point, so I guess one must consider the source.
Del – is that what you really think, or are you just trying to get some sort of rise out of people?
I could paint a much more accurate picture of what it is to liberals (because there is some truth in a couple of parts of what you say) – but if you’re more interested in painting pictures that make you feel better about your position, I won’t waste my time.
If someone said STAY OUT of my NOSE
..i will but dont expect me to pay for your nasal spray.