I am Sandra Fluke

[Anonymous]

Very happily married mother of two.
Found out that I am a slut, and have been calling my family and friends all weekend to let them know. Everyone is overjoyed at the news. Planning trip to SlutLand next summer as a group to celebrate, as soon as I'm done with the next product launch at work.

Do share if you're in the same boat!

[Anonymous]

You re married not a slut unless you bang people beside your husband

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You re married not a slut unless you bang people beside your husband

No, no, American Sharia says I'm a slut if I use contraceptives.

[Anonymous]

Sandra fluke sounds like Sandra crabs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sandra fluke sounds like Sandra crabs

Give it up, even Rush admitted he was being a douchebag.

[Anonymous]

I chose to attend a Catholic University. I knew before I made this decision that contraception would not be a part of the package. I now want to bitch and complain (i.e., make a name for myself) because I do not receive what I always knew I would not receive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I chose to attend a Catholic University. I knew before I made this decision that contraception would not be a part of the package. I now want to bitch and complain (i.e., make a name for myself) because I do not receive what I always knew I would not receive.

Except you SHOULD receive it. Catholic institutions should be required to provide it. Their beliefs aren't valid.

[Anonymous]

we all know you went to Gtown law bc its one of the top 20 law schools in the US, and then when you got there, you decided to protest the policies of the school. I would throw out or give up some of my beliefs in order to get the name of a top law school too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I chose to attend a Catholic University. I knew before I made this decision that contraception would not be a part of the package. I now want to bitch and complain (i.e., make a name for myself) because I do not receive what I always knew I would not receive.


Except you SHOULD receive it. Catholic institutions should be required to provide it. Their beliefs aren't valid.Anonymous wrote:
I chose to attend a Catholic University. I knew before I made this decision that contraception would not be a part of the package. I now want to bitch and complain (i.e., make a name for myself) because I do not receive what I always knew I would not receive.


Except you SHOULD receive it. Catholic institutions should be required to provide it. Their beliefs aren't valid

This is your argument?

[Anonymous]

I love the "their beliefs aren't valid."

Oh ok. Great come back.

[Anonymous]

Not that poster, but if we as a society have determined women should have control over their own reproductive rights, then it stands to reason we as a society should make birth control available to everyone, not just those who can afford it. Half of America is poor or near-poor (200% FPL or less), and women and children are the ones who suffer most from that poverty/low-income.

We are obviously not in agreement as a society that we should help care for the poor financially, so widely-available birth control makes even more sense.

This is easily a compelling governmental interest that trumps "religious freedom," especially since we are talking about merely paying for coverage and are not forcing pills down observant Catholic women's throats.

We have a long history of public policy trumping religion in this country. I religiously object to war, but I pay my taxes anyway. Nobody's forcing a gun in my hand. It's not ideal, but it's the price I pay for living in this society. If I can do it, I'm sure a bunch of old never-married male bishops can, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I chose to attend a Catholic University. I knew before I made this decision that contraception would not be a part of the package. I now want to bitch and complain (i.e., make a name for myself) because I do not receive what I always knew I would not receive.


Except you SHOULD receive it. Catholic institutions should be required to provide it. Their beliefs aren't valid.Anonymous wrote:
I chose to attend a Catholic University. I knew before I made this decision that contraception would not be a part of the package. I now want to bitch and complain (i.e., make a name for myself) because I do not receive what I always knew I would not receive.


Except you SHOULD receive it. Catholic institutions should be required to provide it. Their beliefs aren't valid

This is your argument?

They can believe whatever they want but if they receive public funding they have to submit to the same rules as everybody else.
People who think this doesn't affect them because they don't deal with Catholic institutions needs to reevaluate their thinking, as Catholic hospitals are increasingly merging with secular ones and tyring to impose their value system on everybody.
Cardinal Dolan just made a speech urging Catholics to become more active in politics.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/nyregion/cardinal-timothy-m-dolan-urges-catholics-to-become-more-politically-active.html?scp=1&sq=cardinal%20dolan&st=cse

The cardinal mocked a secular culture that “seems to discover new rights every day.”

“I don’t recall a right to marriage,” he said, describing marriage, instead, as a “call.”

“Now we hear there’s a right to sterilization, abortion and chemical contraceptives. I suppose there might be a doctor who would say to a man who’s suffering some type of sexual dysfunction, ‘You ought to visit a prostitute to help you.’ ”

Cardinal Dolan said that the prelates, though, might not be the church’s most persuasive advocates. He told a story about bishops hiring an “attractive, articulate, intelligent” laywoman to speak against abortion and said it was “the best thing we ever did,” adding, “In the public square, I hate to tell you, the days of fat, balding Irish bishops are over.”

One right we do know at least some of the bishops stand for is the right not to report sexual abuse allegations to the police.

[takoma]

A fundamental disagreement is whether religious liberty includes the right to control what happens to money that you pay someone else. One position is that once it is gone, it is no longer yours, and has nothing to do with your religion. The other is that if it is going to be used for something of which I don't approve, you have a right to refuse to spend it, even if that intrudes on someone else's life.

My view, as I have probably said in several different threads, is the first. Just as freedom of speech does not extend to injuring someone else with libel of slander, freedom of religion does not allow you to control what others do with money you owe them.

[Anonymous]

The day I go on national television and whine about not being able to afford contraception, while I am attending a a prestigious law school, then you may call me a slut.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The day I go on national television and whine about not being able to afford contraception, while I am attending a a prestigious law school, then you may call me a slut.

Sorry, it's never OK to call anyone a slut, even when they ask for it like you are. Worse, since you think it's OK to call a woman a slut, you were probably raised hearing your mother or other women in your life called names. To me it's even more horrible to denigrate someone who obviously doesnt know anything different than disrespect.