Anonymous wrote:I absolutely reject that this is about religious liberty. No one is saying that a single Catholic person must take birth control.

A HEALTHCARE institution and a HEALTHCARE plan must offer the OPTION of birthcontrol. Period. No moralizing.

If you think your moral position on birth control makes sense, then continue to preach it. But your morals - YOUR morals - cannot stand between a single patient and all their legally available medical treatments..

It's especially perplexing when the Church recognizes non-birth-control related reasons to take it. How do they know someone isn't taking it due to a medical condition?

I absolutely reject that this is about religious liberty. No one is saying that a single Catholic person must take birth control.

A HEALTHCARE institution and a HEALTHCARE plan must offer the OPTION of birthcontrol. Period. No moralizing.

If you think your moral position on birth control makes sense, then continue to preach it. But your morals - YOUR morals - cannot stand between a single patient and all their legally available medical treatments.

Conservatives seem to have no problem compromising "Liberty" when it works against abortion. Efforts at restricting abortion restrict women's freedoms daily.

Just because your religion tells you something is right doesn't mean the goverment can't regulate differently. Mormons believed in polygamy, the US govt said, nope, sorry. The law of the land trumps religious liberty. Catholics are no different than any other sect who has its more extreme dogma conflict with the law of the land.

Now that I've answered your question, why don't you answer mine?

Anonymous wrote:To pp. so you don't believe in religious freedom?

I believe in religious freedom the same way I believe in freedom of speech. I don't think either one is absolute, and I can't really believe anyone is that surprised to find that out, but maybe it's that there's a whole strain of Christianity that seems to need to experience persecution, even if it's more perception than reality.

To pp. so you don't believe in religious freedom?

Tell me honestly, if I belong to a community whose reading of the bible is that the man is supposed to rule over the woman, and is entitled to discipline her with force, and that is core religious belief of my sect, then should I be exempt from prosecution under domestic violence laws?

Personally I'd love it if we could get away from employer sponsored health care, but in the meantime I really don't understand how you can object if a health insurer agrees to provide contraceptive coverage that the insurer wants to provide and the person wants to use?

Are you going to decide that any money you pay to a insurance company, or a pharmacy must be money that is going to contraception? If that's the road you are going down, it seems like it will only stop when you have your own insurance companies and pharmacies that never provide contraceptive coverage to anyone?

If the church really cared about providing healthcare to poor people they wouldn't try to turn this into a political armageddon.

+1

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/religious-right-now/post/you-cant-compromise-on-religious-liberty/2012/02/12/gIQAqVWj9Q_blog.html

Great article.