A new headline popped up recently: CATHOLIC DIOCESES, GROUPS
SUE ON OBAMA BIRTH-CONTROL RULE.
As we all know now, Obama’s healthcare plan mandates that
employers provide workers free birth control as part of their health insurance.
A well know medical fact is that birth control promotes maternal and child
health by allowing women to space their pregnancies.
The Catholic Church, as we all know now, does not give a
shit about maternal or child health, all they care about is their “sacred”
beliefs supposedly , according to them, passed on from God; most Catholics
practice contraception because it is the logical human thing to do.
The Catholic Church had other “sacred” beliefs passed down
from God that through time, have become less sacred and eventually abandoned
all together. I still remember when eating meat on Friday was such a bad sin.
How about cremation; banned because the Church at the time, really believed
that all bodies will be resurrected at the end-time and so not having a body in
the ground meant you were never resurrected. The Catholic Church quietly let
that superstition drop after they could no longer logically and theologically
support such nonsense.
How about the ole’ purgatory belief… the Catholic Church
made a lot of money selling indulgences to get your grandmother out of jail
(purgatory)…only $5 gets her time reduced. How about if a baby dies on its way
to baptism, it is forever dammed to hell…really?
What about suicide and the days when those that committed
suicide were anathema to the Church and could not get any Catholic services
like a burial mass and actual burial in a Catholic cemetery but as witnessed in
the deaths of some very Catholic Kennedys, it’s OK now; hell you can disagree
with all Church teachings and its OK…now.
The Catholic Church has had many “silly” beliefs they touted
as “sacred” in the past and they defended those beliefs as representatives of
Jesus on earth and therefore with divine authority to pontificate any which way
they wanted.
Contraception is such a benefit to human kind that being
against it is somehow anti-human but like I said before, the Church does not
really give a shit what benefits contraception provides to mothers and
children; it’s all about their current “sacred” beliefs.
Obama has been sensitive to “religious beliefs” and has
agreed to accommodate those beliefs by structuring the mandate in such a way
that no religious group will have to pay for contraceptive services or provide
them directly, it will be all done by insurance companies.
New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan said that Obama is
trespassing on his First Amendment right of practicing his religion / freedom
of religion and no compromise is possible; his way or the highway…
Since the Catholic Church runs hospitals, schools and
charities and employs many people who are not all Catholics, it is an EMPLOYER
first and a CHURCH second and as such, must obey federal rules mandated on ALL
EMPLOYERS unless granted special dispensation by the courts for specifically
HOUSES OF WORSHIP…only.
So, as you can see, I have problems with this issue on many
levels. First, all employers must obey validly enacted federal legislation that
mandates certain practices pertaining to health insurance provided by the
employers and that includes Catholic employers.
Second, the Church stance on contraception is stupid and
silly and anti-human and no, I do not respect other people’s religious beliefs
if they are against human nature and welfare and since most Catholics do not
respect the Church’s position on contraception, why should anybody.
Suing the federal government in court costs money and the
Church makes, no takes, money from its parishioners and I hope those
parishioners make some noise about the Church wasting their hard earned money
on issues they themselves do not support!!!
Cardinal Dolan’s plan is to get the issue decided by the ALL
CATHOLIC SUPREME COURT but he should not count on a victory there because the
United States was founded on a SEPERATION OF CHURCH AND STATE and it would be
unconstitutional to have the Church interfere in how the country is run…it has
worked for us for this long; we are not about to change that constitutional
mandate to please some silly-ass cardinal and his “silly-ass” religious
beliefs.
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