Democrats were in favor of religious freedom before they were against it

From The American Thinker Blog:

Democrats and their allies in the mainstream media are in a dither over the Supreme Court Hobby Lobby decision. And driven by either agenda or ignorance, they don’t even remember that at one time they were all champions of the same religious freedom they are now against.

The SCOTUS ruling is not about contraception, but instead it affirms a law dating back to 1993. The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) is a law, “to protect the free exercise of religion,” according to the U.S. Senate. Specifically, the purpose of the law is “to provide a claim or defense to persons whose religious exercise is burdened by government.” That is the crux of the Hobby Lobby claim. Congress passed this law almost unanimously.

The RFRA was introduced following an unpopular SCOTUS decision curbing the religious freedom of Native Americans to use peyote. Congressman Charles [Chuck the Schmuck] Schumer introduced the bill in March 1993, a time when liberals were strongly in favor of religious freedom. The bill was cosponsored by many of the same Democrats braying the loudest about the SCOTUS decision, including Rosa DeLorio, Luis Gutierrez, Nancy Pelosi, and Maxine Waters. The Senate passed this bill by a vote of 97-3. Voting in favor were Senators [Joe "Bite Me"] Biden, [Babs] Boxer, [DiFi] Feinstein, {Dingy} Reid, and Mikulski among many others. {Editor's Note: And signed into law by President Bill Clinton]

What a difference a couple of decades makes. Harry Reid was in favor of religious freedom before he was against it. Voting for the RFRA in 1993, he is now indignant that the SCOTUS upheld the same law he voted for. Ditto Nancy Pelosi, who is fussing about “a gross violation of workers’ religious rights.” What religious rights are being violated? Are the Hobby Lobby workers members of a religion with a commandment, “Thou shall be provided abortifacients paid for by someone else”? Or is it the employer whose religious rights are being violated – “Thou shalt not kill” – by making him or her purchase these drugs for employees?

Hillary Clinton also found the Hobby Lobby decision “deeply disturbing.” How ironic that her husband, in November 1993, signed the RFRA into law, and when upheld 20 years later, she finds it disturbing.

Intellectual consistency has never been a strong suit of the Democrat Party. or the Drive-By-Media. or Liberal/Progressive Activists.