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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
Did I miss something? I thought all this hullabaloo was in response to a new HHS regulation that required the health insurance policies provided to employees of private hospitals, including those owned and operated by various Catholic dioceses, to include coverage for birth control prescriptions.
The church is not being compelled to provide birth control pills, nor are the hospitals they own. And the female employees of those hospitals aren't being forced to take the pills. If they feel strongly enough about their religious beliefs, it will simply be a feature of their coverage that they can choose not to use.
Wow! The far right has really twisted this story to make it sound like the President himself is forcing Catholic women to take birth control pills that violate their religious beliefs. Seems like a far stretch from what's actually happening to me.
I wonder what percentage of Catholic women actually follow that precept of the Church these days anyway?
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What are u smokin' Kahuna. You've completely missed the point. It's kind of crazy, actually.
President Obama wants the Catholic Church to be required to pay for birth control. It's against Catholic teaching. It's a Constitutional issue and nothing more. President Obama want to breach the First Amendment and it's provision of freedom of religion.
Nobody is outlawing birth control pills and no one cares one whit whether a woman takes them or not. That is between she and her doctor and her own conscience, if it's a question of faith.
If the State can compel a Church to act against it's own teachings and beliefs, can they also compel a Roman Catholic doctor to perform an abortion, or for a Roman Catholic Hospital to allow the procedure on it's premises?
It's the Constitutional issue of Freedom of Religion.