Yea, opposing contraception is like opposing leukemia coverage

[sirs]

Your opinion on that specific religion/church is duly noted

[Xavier_Onassis]

Why should anyone interpret the US Constitution to mean that the alien Pope's opinion should trump that of bona fide tax paying American citizen?

If the Pope claimed God told him contraceptives were okay with Jesus, he'd pass the word down tomorrow, I assume.

[sirs]

Why should anyone interpret the US Constitution to mean that the alien Pope's opinion should trump that of bona fide tax paying American citizen?

Probably because no one is     

[BT]

XO seems to be building with straw this week.

[Xavier_Onassis]

You are incapable of seeing reality, as always. This is about the Pope imposing his will on millions of American women who want contraceptives.

[BT]

You are incapable of seeing reality, as always. This is about the Pope imposing his will on millions of American women who want contraceptives.

It has nothing to do with the Pope. It has to do with bureaucrats stepping all over the first amendment.

[BSB]

It has to do with a guy in Rome wearing a penis hat deciding who gets insurance coverage on what.

BSB

[Xavier_Onassis]

If the Pope okayed contraceptives, this issue would vanish. That is clear.

Why should our Constitution allow some dork in Rome to prevent women from getting the pills they want?

Most Catholic women ignore the Pope on birth control issues already. No one is forcing anyone to use contraceptives.

The Roman Catholic Church is not an American citizen and does not have the right to inflict its views on American citizens.

[BSB]

It's not even a moral issue for the Church. It's about having more little barefoot Catholics running around then Protestants. Or now probably Muslims.


BSB

[sirs]

If the Pope okayed contraceptives, this issue would vanish. That is clear.

What is clear is that this isn't about 1 man, but the hard left, as explified by messers xo & bsb, apparently has unresolved issues with the Catholic Church.  But to placate your obsession, it MIGHT make the issue vanish, as it relates to the Catholic Church ONLY.  There's all manner of religions, that would make their own CHOICE, and if their convictions would also decline the providing BC, that would also be their CHOICE

Why should our Constitution allow some dork in Rome to prevent women from getting the pills they want?

Because it has nothing to do with any dork in Rome

No one is forcing anyone to use contraceptives.

Exactly......ITS THEIR CHOICE.  So, what's the beef??

The Roman Catholic Church is not an American citizen and does not have the right to inflict its views on American citizens.

Nor is it

[BSB]

Who is left and who is right on this one? Sirs, BT, and other Catholics are on the left here. This is old time Rome rules over the local authority crap. We've been fighting this battle for centuries against the Catholics. My forefathers fought it in England.   


BSB

[sirs]

What the hell are you talking about?? I can't speak for Bt, but sirs is on the side of the constitution.  It has squat to do with the Catholic church, outside of the Federal government & its think-they-know-better bumbling LEFT bureaucrats attempting to mandate acts upon religious organizations, squarely counter to the clear wording of the 1st amendment to the U.S. Constitution, that would prohibit the free exercise of said religion.  My forefathers fought for that freedom, and by God, I'm going to keep defending it

[Plane]

Thoughtfull people were against abortion before there was such a thing as a Pope.

That is why it is mentioned in the Hippocratic oath.

Being for abortion , no matter what evidence might be presented ,is a refusal to accept both logic and compassion.

If the Pope is against abortion , good on him , I might co-operate with his efforts to do a good thing, even if I disagree with him quite a bit on other decisions.

What sort of logic is being used to say that something is bad becauase the Pope is in favor of it?

[BT]

Why should our Constitution allow some dork in Rome to prevent women from getting the pills they want?

What a misogynist thing to say.

Why do you insists that women are so stupid that they cannot go down to the walmart and get a prescription filled that will cost them $4 a month.

What is it about democrats that they insist their subjects couldn't tie their shoelaces without governments help.

[BSB]

It's the old time Democrats that supported the Church over the individual. We're apparently back to that. Next thing you know no one will be able to eat meat on Friday.   

BSB