• The left, not social conservatives, threatens religious liberty.
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[QUOTE] Now hear this: No Republicans on the national political scene, including Rick Santorum, threaten our religious liberty. Many Democrats, including President Obama and Senate Democrats, do. And they've struck again with the Senate's defeat of the Blunt amendment. President Obama, who seems to spend as much time community organizing as he does attending to his executive duties, doubtlessly conspired with his crack opposition research trolls and the liberal media to shoehorn the contraception issue into the 2012 presidential campaign. What do I mean about Obama's spending time community organizing? Well, he is using the office of the presidency to intimidate the Koch brothers into disclosing their donors' names. He and his minions falsely, with malice aforethought, accused the U.S. Chamber of Commerce of receiving foreign contributions, with no evidence, and when challenged to substantiate it, they taunted that it was up to the chamber and its defenders to prove a negative. Obama's Justice Department has taxpayer-funded employees posing as ordinary American citizens and posting pro-Obama agenda comments on various websites. His Justice Department attacks Republicans genuinely attempting to monitor actual voter fraud and protects his friends who engage in real-life voter intimidation. I could go on. What do I mean about Democrats and their cronies shoehorning the contraception issue? I'm hardly among the first 100 people to point out that George Stephanopoulos gratuitously injected into a GOP presidential debate a bizarre question about contraception. Mitt Romney was so taken aback he was almost rendered -- uncharacteristically -- speechless. In no time, talk shows and the Internet were abuzz about the issue, and a video of Rick Santorum talking about contraception went viral. Even some on the right -- though not social conservatives -- were apparently led to believe that if elected president, Santorum would single-handedly usher in a Catholic theocracy. It didn't seem to matter that in that same video, Santorum expressly assured us that he would not attempt to force his views on contraception through legislation. When you ask complainants to specify exactly how Santorum or any other social conservative represents a threat to religious liberty or would even remotely infringe on any of our constitutional rights concerning it, you get nothing but innuendo and fantastic hysteria. Santorum and other social conservatives may well annoy those who don't want to hear about social issues, but they do not represent any kind of threat to religious liberties, nor are they any less concerned about the cataclysmic fiscal and economic issues threatening our nation or any less determined and equipped to address them simply because they also care about social issues. President Obama and the Democratic leadership, on the other hand, do represent a threat to religious liberty, and they invoke religion as often as Republicans -- whether from the presidential bully pulpit and National Prayer Breakfast podium or in their churches. Democrats warn that Republicans will use their governmental power to cram our religious values down their throats, but at least when we vote our values, we do so through the constitutionally prescribed democratic processes rather than through undemocratic, tyrannical judicial usurpations such as with abortion and same-sex marriage jurisprudence. President Obama is the one who, in a flagrant breach of his numerous promises, is facilitating the federal funding of abortifacients and cramming this issue down the throats of the several states. He's the one forcing us -- because of his "religious" values; listen to his prayer breakfast speech -- to buy health insurance and telling us what types of coverage must be included in the health insurance policies we purchase, even if some of those violate our rights of religious and moral conscience and thus our religious liberties guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution. He's the one who, when called on this outrage, patronizingly pretended to compromise on the issue by forcing insurance companies to pay for these objectionable practices, as if those costs wouldn't be passed through to those with conscience objections and as if the insurance companies have no conscience protections themselves. He's the one who, along with his Democratic majority in the Senate, tabled the amendment by Sen. Roy Blunt to allow employers to opt out of providing health care coverage that violates their conscience rights. The Blunt amendment, it should be noted, wouldn't deny any woman access to contraceptives or even abortifacients; it would just exempt employers from being forced to subsidize them. As usual, the government compulsion proceeds from the left, not the right. Adding insult to injury, Democrats, as usual, drench their support of the coerced coverage in the euphemism of women's health. We social conservatives might annoy you because we sometimes talk about our faith-based values (while the left talks about its values just as much), but we represent no threat to anyone's religious liberties. The same cannot be said about the habitually projecting political left. [/QUOTE] It's about time someone stood up and spoke the truth. [url]http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=49904[/url] [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Not news" - GunFox))[/highlight]
[QUOTE]crack opposition research trolls[/QUOTE] *checks source* [h2] "by David Limbaugh" [/h2]
"employers are forced to provide coverage for most things and obama wants to force them to provide coverage for contraception too OH THE OUTRAGE, HOW CAN HE SHOVE SUCH RELIGIOUS AND MORAL VIOLATIONS DOWN OUR THROATS"
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Get this garbage out of here.
Glad to see someone standing up for God, the Truth, and the Bible.
white christians are the most persecuted and unprivileged group in america. Finally someone stands up for what's right
[quote]Now hear this: No Republicans on the national political scene, including Rick Santorum, threaten our religious liberty.[/quote] If by "our religious liberty" you are referring solely to the strong political influence Christianity and its followers have on the United States today, why then yes, you're absolutely right. Santorum and the rest of the Republicans are their best friends and pander to them at every opportunity they get. They don't threaten them at all. But they're wrong to do so.
I'm a sucker for a good opinion piece every once in awhile, but this is just ridiculous.
damn left stop threatening gay marriage and stop using the bible to suppress human rights.
Yeah, we don't play around with that shit here. Opinion pieces should be in fast threads or the debate forum.
You also can't engage in ritualistic sacrifice characteristic of ancient Mayan religions. Nor can you have as many wives as you desire. Faith healing is, in many circumstances, illegal. That is because our government, by design, isn't religious. When it is functioning as intended, it passes laws to protect the population from harm. Contraception protects the population. There really isn't much more to it. The bill was fucking stupid. Employers should, across the board, be forced to provide equal protection. That is how the law is supposed to work. Equal protection.
One's religious liberty does not grant one the ability to infringe upon the liberties of others by use of their religions. Despite the best efforts of bigots, zealots, and ignoramuses, homosexuals are humans, and as such, deserving of the same basic rights as any other human.
[QUOTE]as if the insurance companies have no conscience protections themselves.[/QUOTE] What the fuck is this? An insurance company can't deny you coverage just because something you' purchase makes them feel bad.
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