Three thoughts about the Obama administration's attempts to make Catholics pay for birth control and other unseemly commodified assaults on human nature:
1-Fuck off, Mr. President.
2- The best line from the Bishops written response: "All the other mandated 'preventive services' prevent disease, and pregnancy is not a disease."
3-The real winners in all this, of course, are the pharmaceutical companies, who one way or another will increase their sales, I'm sure.
-Alright, I have sympathy for the Catholic stance here, but the thing that bugs me is this: how is this different than requiring, say, Quakers or Mennonites to pay taxes so we can bomb whatever country is being bombed at the moment?
ReplyDelete-Yes on number 2.
-What do people value more: sex or religion? Hmm...
-What a mess. I was so pissed off about all this last week, particularly with politicians and the media who just want make this one more amusement in their circus of nonsense.
You have a very good point as regards item 1. From a theological/moral standpoint, the conflict is of the same sort. From a constitutional standpoint, however (which is much less signifigant, but also more immediately practical), I would imagine it is easier to make a case for the funding of wars than it is to argue that constitutionaly the government can make a citizen buy a product from a private company that they find morally repugnant. Who knows?
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