If Ricky the Catholic had a choice, he would rather his church spend $100,000,000 fighting same-sex couples rather than spend $18/month on a pack of birth control pills for their members. See?
FROTHY VESTED MAN to the rescue!
"If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal,” then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal.” ~ John F. Kennedy, 1960
The Catholic Church loves the idea of spewing their religious ideologies on the rest of the country, but make them pay for insurance so one of their members can get a hysterectomy because her organs are riddled with cancer, THAT’S WHEN THEY CALL ALL OUT WAR!
See?
I fucking hate the Catholic Church!
The Catholic Church would rather spend $100,000,000 on trying to eradicate gays from America and the world, but ask them to pay for insurance so one of their worshipers can get a hysterectomy because her organs are riddled with cancer, NOPE! THAT’S WHERE THEY DRAW THE LINE!
Gawd I hate this church!
The CELIBATE MALE hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church and its parishioners are often in completely different places, especially in the USA where so many are “cafeteria” Catholics who pick and choose which church edicts they will honor. A vast majority of Catholic woman (like 98%) at one time or another use contraception as they no longer see a need to birth a dozen kids (possibly losing their life in childbirth) in order to GROW the church.
President Obama is protecting the Catholic and non-Catholic employees of Catholic institutions from the Catholic hierarchy’s archaic ideas. However, the right is jumping all over this, with Boehner and McConnell proposing now to go around the President to pass laws to rescind the order from the Department of Health and Human Services. And of course Santorum and his ilk are now playing up big time a “meme” that Obama “hates” religion and the First Amendment!
My greatest fear is that enough swing voters, both Catholic and from other faiths, will fall for this spin and vote Republican this fall. They already have 20% of Americans believing that Obama is a “foreign-born Muslim, who is forcing his socialist “anti-Christian” views on America. They are downplaying the contraception angle (because most every American practices contraception?) in order to push bogus “religious freedom” talking points.
In a world of 7 billion people (BTW, tripled since my birth in 1939…World War II was barely a blip), we don’t need MORE people on our crowded planet. Except the Catholic Church and cults like Mormonism promote big families in order to grow new members since most children are “brainwashed” by parents to have their same religious and political beliefs (even sports teams loyalties).
THE TRUTH: most practicing Catholics use some form of birth control and some have had abortions. It’s that plain and simple.
My late cousin in upstate New York had FIVE single births in only FOUR years. She and her husband were fully educated in Catholic schools and were most obedient to the church so practiced only Church-approved birth control…the so called “rhythm method” where couples abstain from insemination in the middle of a woman’s month, several days before and after ovulation. However, with an erratic menstrual cycle, my cousin kept getting pregnant. Being only about 5 foot tall, 100 lbs wet, and most fragile, she developed chronic anemia and did not have enough time between pregnancies to recover her health. She was pale as a ghost and spent her last two pregnancies mostly in bed. Her doctor told her ONE more pregnancy might kill her so he suggested a tubal ligation…”tying her Fallopian Tubes”. Their parish priest said IF she went ahead with the procedure, he would ex-communicate HER (not her husband). So they went to a secular hospital (since Catholic hospitals in the region wouldn’t touch that kind of sterilization surgery per Church rules). They even switched parishes so she wouldn’t have to confront their former priest ever again. As a result of fighting with the Church, my once most pious cousin more or less dropped out of the Church, became a Christmas/Easter only Catholic.
Why wasn’t the catholic church RICOed for the covering up of multiple felonies upon children for decades?
Why aren’t the hierarchy who hid these criminal actions for decades in jail????????????????????????????????????????????
Clif, the Catholics are totally fine with their pedophile priests and paying off the families of the victims, but ask the church to offer contraceptive coverage to it’s employees? ILLEGAL! BLASPHEMY!
The Catholic Church receives much government money, including Medicare/Medicaid for their affiliated groups. Remember these funds are collected from taxpayers, a majority of whom are NOT Catholic! So is the church exempt from government rules attached to these funds?
Rick Santorum, who believes BIG GOVERNMENT should be in our bedrooms and doctor’s offices, believes in NO contraception (having said that somehow condoms and the like promote sex FOR PLEASURE and not for conception). Santorum doesn’t believe in one’s “freedom” to NOT conceive!
Once the Catholic Church was arrogant and oppressive enough to use some state governments to force its birth control doctrine on everyone in the state of Connecticut and Massachusetts, including married couples in the privacy of their own homes. It finally blew up in their face, and the Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965 helped to establish the right of privacy. To give equal rights to contraception to unmarried people, Eisenstadt v. Baird ruled in 1972. Ever since, Griswold has functioned as the legal basis for judicial rulings involving issues of sexual intimacy, reproductive rights, and family life and figured heavily then in Roe v. Wade in 1973.
Personally, I would be more comfortable if Catholic institutions were allowed to offer their employees two insurance options, with or without birth control coverage, were it not for the risk of possible retaliation against Catholic employees who opted for the more expensive coverage of contraception. These Catholic institutions may want to get by as cheaply as possible and find it easier to just fire employees than to provide them with health care.
New post up about Frothy: http://whitenoiseinsanity.com/.....employees/