• Catholic churches evangelize against Obama en masse
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[quote] In a surprising move over the weekend, thousands of Catholic parishioners were read letters that condemn the Obama administration and its [URL="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/20/obama-admin-commits-to-universal-birth-control-access/"]recent decision to make birth control available to women[/URL] through virtually all private health insurance plans. The letters were written by Catholic Bishops in the U.S. and read aloud [URL="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/30/us-catholics-contraception-idUSTRE80T06K20120130"]at hundreds of Catholic churches on Sunday[/URL]. In [URL="http://www.diocesephoenix.org/uploads/docs/RELIGOUS-LIBERTY-INSURANCE-LETTER-012512.pdf"]one of the letters[/URL] (PDF), written by a Catholic Bishop in Phoenix, Ariz., the church attacks the Obama administration for having “cast aside the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, denying to Catholics our Nation’s first and most fundamental freedom, that of religious liberty.” But far from taking away their religious liberty or any of their “God given rights,” the Obama administration’s decision to make private insurers cover birth control will ensure that the church cannot deny these services to their employees if they choose to utilize them. “We cannot — we will not — comply with this unjust law,” Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted wrote in just one of the numerous letters. “People of faith cannot be made second class citizens. We are already joined by our brothers and sisters of all faiths and many others of good will in this important effort to regain our religious freedom. Our parents and grandparents did not come to these shores to help build America’s cities and towns, its infrastructure and institutions, its enterprise and culture, only to have their posterity stripped of their God given rights.” The church added that Catholics should pray to ask the virgin Mary to intercede for the nation, and that parishioners look up [URL="http://www.nchla.org/actiondisplay.asp?ID=292"]the National Committee for a Human Life Amendment[/URL], a Catholic anti-abortion group. The only exception to the rule that would allow an employer to deny access to birth control is if the employer is a religious non-profit that hires exclusively within their faith. All other organizations, including non-profits run by religious groups that hire based upon non-discrimination policies, must enact the new rule by August 1, 2013. While the decision was indeed a victory for pro-choice activists, the Obama administration in December shot down a proposed rule that would have made the morning-after pill available [URL="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/07/hhs-keeps-age-restrictions-for-morning-after-pill/"]over the counter and without an age restriction[/URL], even though the pills are less toxic than the common painkiller Tylenol. Over the counter sales of Plan B had previously been approved by the Food and Drug Administration.[/quote] [url]http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/30/catholic-churches-evangelize-against-obama-en-masse/[/url]
[quote]The church added that Catholics should pray to ask the virgin Mary to intercede for the nation[/quote] lol what
[QUOTE]The church added that Catholics should pray to ask the virgin Mary to intercede for the nation [/QUOTE] All I can see when I read that is a really bad football play.
How is giving women the option of birth control 'infringing on their religious liberty'?
Serparation of Church and State mother fuckers! get with the times!
[QUOTE=tier56;34477112]How is giving women the option of birth control 'infringing on their religious liberty'?[/QUOTE] Some people believe that it's within their rights and freedom to limit the freedom of others.
[QUOTE=tier56;34477112]How is giving women the option of birth control 'infringing on their religious liberty'?[/QUOTE]Because they don't get the freedom to control everything.
[QUOTE=tier56;34477112]How is giving women the option of birth control 'infringing on their religious liberty'?[/QUOTE] Because God gave this world to America to kick ass on, and to act in His Most Precious And Holy Name. Our liberties include the ability to shove God's rules down everyone else's throat.
I really don't see the problem they have with this. If you're against things like contraception, [B]don't use contraception.[/B]
The Catholic Church, an organization that protects kid fuckers, enforces a rule forbidding their preachers from marrying, and then has the nerve to blame the sexual predators they produce on homosexuality instead, takes the moral high ground. Lovely. Oh, and gents, I was raised Catholic. This is a criticism of the organization that leads the religion, not the faith itself.
Hey, religious numbskulls, look up the definition of choice. It means you can choose. So simply choose not to take it. Just because it's covered doesn't mean you have to use it.
That wasn't even related to the article.
"Aw man, now that birth control is freely available to us, we have to get abortions. Damn you, Obama!"
Oh, the irony (again) FYI to all those catholics, state not allowing contraception because church said so =/= separation of church and state.
I thought the pope was pals with Obama since Obama went down to meet him.
[QUOTE=Source;34477123]Serparation of Church and State mother fuckers! get with the times![/QUOTE] The Catholic church essentially functions as a political party: they've been like that since the moment they were established. You can't expect them to be any more respectful of concepts like that than any secular political party. They should, but they never will be.
Religion needs to be slowly done away with, causes too many problems and does little good.
Because the catholic church believes that women don't have the right over their own bodies and men should be in control of it instead.
Religiousness should only be a study of being a human. Not all people are human.
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