The Catholic Church says that EACH act of INTERCOURSE MUST
be open to procreation.
If I followed that precept, I would have hundreds of kids by
now and my wife would be dead and I would be a raving lunatic and the kids
would be suffering big time because the ruling is stupid and unrealistic and
that is why most Catholics and practically all Catholic women just ignore the
idiotic rule and use some form of contraception.
Here is the rub: Obama’s new health plan “mandates”
accessibility to contraceptives for all women that want it. In other words, if
you provide health insurance to your workers, the health insurance plan MUST
contain a provision for obtaining contraceptive devices or provide them for
free to people in the plan after all, Viagra is covered by all plans, why not
contraceptives.
There are virtually thousands of workers that work for
religious institutions such as hospitals and schools and many of them are NOT
Catholic. Obama’s rule would exempt institutions that provide health care
coverage ONLY to people of their faith but NOT if their coverage includes
non-Catholic employees.
Catholic bishops are crying that Obama’s rule violates their
FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE and is an ATTACK ON THEIR FAITH and Obama is listening to
them because it may mean loosing votes (I doubt it) even if it violates HIS own
conscience.
The bishops are promoting the NATURAL FAMILY PLAN. The same
bishops have no idea what it means or feels to be married or even be with a
woman and yet they are adamant about telling couples how they should behave in
their matrimonial union…how preposterous and insane is that?
Since most Catholics do not follow the Church precepts on
birth control or even on abortion, why do they put up with the bullshit coming
out of their leader’s mouths?
This to me seems like a huge disconnect between the Church
and its members, making the whole situation seem silly and absurd.
I think Obama should stick to his guns and demand
contraceptive coverage for all employees of religious institutions and this
will allow those employees to decide for themselves if they want to use
contraceptives or not and not some celibate reprobate.
Republicans are jumping on this issue and saying Obama is
waging was on religion. Well excuse me but this is not Taliban country and people
working for religious institutions are entitled to the same coverage everybody
else is getting…period.
And for those clergy and other religious people that say
this all smacks of an attack on their freedom of conscience, all I have to say
how dare you talk about conscience after the priestly sex scandal.
Note: Why oppose contraception? Each kid born is a potential
dues paying Catholic so the more the better for ole’ Mother Church
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