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Catholic Bishops: We Shall Overcome
By NCD on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 1:28pm |Invoking the words of Martin Luther King in his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", the Catholic Bishops are asserting their right to get government funding to deny placement of foster children with gay couples. Catholic agencies can still do so, but would lose government financing. The Bishops also believe the Constitution protects their right to deny any woman, regardless of her religion, working for any Catholic hospital or organization which receives federal funds, the right to a single work related package of health insurance which includes birth control pills or devices. The Bishops say that their freedom of religion is being denied, comparing their fight with the civil rights struggles of blacks in the 1960's. The only comparison with the 1960's one could make for the Catholic Bishops, would be with racist bigots who assailed their loss of 'freedoms' or 'way of life' when federal laws made white only bathrooms, elevators, waiting rooms, restaurants or other public facilities illegal. The outcome for the Holy Hypocritical Howling from the Bishops will likely be equally futile.
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This is the truly funny part:
They also assert that the government has violated the religious freedom of Catholics by cutting off contracts to Catholic agencies
You guys were lucky and had a long run where your "morals" were in sync with the rest of those in this republic, and now that's changing--them's the breaks when you got freedom of religion and democracy, sometimes you're the people's choice and sometimes you're not.
by artappraiser on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 3:27pm
I guess the world has gotten too crazy for me to understand. To me, it seems as if the Catholic church is whining that they should have the right to use government money to impose their religious standards on everyone, including those that are not Catholic. How does that make them persecuted? When did America become their Missionary village, where they trade medicine and life-saving health care for converting to Catholicism?
The Constitution protects their right to deny services to anyone that does not follow their teachings when they have chosen to enter a non-religious area and minister to the sick? They are the victims, not the abusers?
Is it me? Am I just old and no longer capable of understanding? Or are they completely insane? (And yes, those are the only two choices.)
by MrSmith1 on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 7:39pm
Frederick Douglass quote, seems to apply: "The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress."
These are the same insane tyrannical Bishops who decried Notre Dame allowing Obama to give a speech, who excommunicated an elderly nun and an entire Catholic hospital in Phoenix for aborting a fetus to save the life of a 29 year old mother with 4 other children. They are the ones who sent tens of thousands of dollars of parish funds to other states, like California and Maine to fight measures to give rights to gay couples. This while uncounted thousands of the poorest of the poor, die or suffer for want of food or medical care in our hemisphere, and throughout the world.
by NCD on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 9:11pm
I recall O'Reilly, years ago and I am too lazy to look up some lost link.
He screamed at the camera in response to a bunch of right wingers who were pissed that he had chosen the side of the issue that gave gay couples the right to adopt:
WHERE THE HELL ELSE ARE THESE CHILDREN TO GO!
Was his response.
He might have even changed his tune since, but I remember this and remember it well!
Rich gays could do so much for a waif with no way home! And I have found no evidence whatsoever that gays would abuse a child any more than heteros!
There was a time when BILLO would show some humanity; that is long lost of course.
so bishops wearing women's clothes would tell the world how to adopt children whilst they claim they have no children (which is bullshit to begin with), is anathema to pure logic!
In my humble opinion!
by Richard Day on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 8:52pm