Religious freedom is great. It allows Americans to openly practice and express beliefs without the fear of being persecuted or restricted by the government.

However, when those rights are exercised by corporations and used to limit the freedom of their employees, we should draw the line.

Allowing for-profit companies the choice to cover birth control in their health coverage based on the personal beliefs of the owner is an abuse of constitutional rights.

On June 30, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Hobby Lobby in the case of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby. The ruling was called “a win for religious freedom,” because it allows corporate heads to deny their employees coverage of prescription birth control.

In this case, the Supreme Court decided the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) of 1993, applied to companies, such as Hobby Lobby.

The RFRA elaborates on our First Amendment right to freely practice religion. The purpose of the RFRA was to provide a defense for people and non-profit companies in cases where they are being sued for failing to pay for things they don’t believe in.

This is where Hobby Lobby drew its defense. It claimed that because David Green, the founder and owner, believes contraception is abortion, that the RFRA also applies to his company.

But let me make this very clear: Contraception is not abortion.

There’s no doubt that Green and his family believe that contraception is abortion. The Green family and Hobby Lobby both donate thousands to pro-life organizations annually.

The Green family is allowed to believe what it would like, but forcing its beliefs on employees is the opposite of freedom. That’s because the Green family is not Hobby Lobby, and Hobby Lobby is not a person. And it’s definitely not being persecuted.

There should be no debates over the morality of contraception. Contraception has been ready and legally available to the public in all states since the 1972 Supreme court case Baird v. Eisenstadt.

Even if the Green family wanted to argue that contraception is unnatural, the same argument could be made about Viagra, Cialas and all erectile dysfunction pills that their health insurance already covers.

But they don’t, because that would affect men’s lives.

This is a double standard.

This is sexism.

Now it’s our generations responsibility to fix that.

It’s not enough to just stop shopping at Hobby Lobby. This ruling now applies to any and all businesses that decide to adopt the religion of their owners.

And it gets worse.

There are only two ways to get a Supreme Court ruling overturned. One way requires another Supreme Court ruling, and typically the court does not turn back on its word until there are new justices. Justices are in office for life or until they retire.

Assuming the makeup of the court doesn’t change anytime soon, that leaves one option: Change the law.

There are 535 members of the U.S. Congress and Senate, and six represent Kansas. That’s a great start.

Write your legislators.