Former Vermont Governor and DNC Chair Howard Dean was a guest on Sunday's State of the Union With Candy Crowley to discuss Obamacare and the upcoming Supreme Court case on employer religious exemptions. While answering the host's question regarding the Supreme Court's decision to hear the Hobby Lobby case, Dean demonstrated how little he knew about the case, and how little he valued Constitutional freedoms.

When Crowley asked Dean how he thought the Supreme Court would rule on the religious exemption case, he answered:

I have no idea what the Supreme Court's going to do. They haven't been entirely favorable to women's ability to control their own reproductive lives, so I don't have any idea. My view of that is we're a single country, and I don't think employers get to impose their religious beliefs on their employees--or any other beliefs, for that matter.

Dean of course is missing the point. The case is not about whether employers can impose their religious beliefs on employees; it's about whether the federal government can impose its religious beliefs on employers. The real issue at stake in the case is if religious liberty ends when someone leaves a house of worship. But as a good progressive, Dean only sees the need for even more expansion of government power:

This idea that we can pick and choose what we're going to do is a tough idea. I was deeply opposed to the Vietnam War, and I thought it was immoral because we were being lied to by our own government. I still paid my taxes and the people who didn't pay their taxes went to jail. This is one country. We all have to live by a set of things that are passed in Washington or agreed to by the court. We'll see what the court does, but I don't think a particular employer has a right to decide what kind of health care their employees are going to get. That's now in the hands of the federal government and where it should be.

The Constitution of the United States does not grant the federal government the right to choose one's healthcare. The disastrous Supreme Court ruling on the individual mandate did not declare that the government has the right to say people even need to buy healthcare. That decision was based in the interpretation of the mandate as a tax.

Like all progressives, Dean believes the State should be the prime director of citizens' lives. There is little room for constitutional freedoms--especially religious liberty--in Dean's statist utopia.