The Link between the Contraception Issue and Islam

The New American ^ | Wednesday, 15 February 2012 | Selwyn Duke

[Paladins Prayer]

While I’m sure Barack Obama loves to stick it to traditional religious institutions any way he can, he certainly doesn’t want to stick it to himself in the process. This is why I’m fairly sure he and his advisors didn’t anticipate that his contraception mandate would result in a knock-down, drag-out fight with the most powerful religious institution in the world. I think they miscalculated, and the reason why brings me to a link between the contraception issue and Islam.

What is it? Simply this: The modern, secular-environment-weaned man is largely incapable of grasping the devoutly religious mindset.

This is especially true of the atheistic, as the relativistic man is incapable of grasping an absolutist mindset.

To the relativistic liberal, and please forgive the redundancy, situational values reign supreme; that is, until they’re deposed by the next week’s values. Everything is negotiable, and there is nothing worth dying for because there’s nothing larger than themselves, nothing more enduring than this life, nothing transcending taste. And a mentality that truly believes otherwise seems fantastical to them.

Oh, liberals of course know that “religious” people exist. They know that there are individuals who go to church, follow some “antiquated” rituals and vote in ways they don’t like. What they have trouble wrapping their emotion-driven minds around is that some of these people really do believe. I mean really believe.

[Paladins Prayer]

Well he fooled me. I didn't think there was a link between contraception and Islam. But there is.

[SumProVita]

It is NOT a contraception issue. It's a FREEDOM OF RELIGION/free EXERCISE of religion issue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Pollster1]

I’m fairly sure he and his advisors didn’t anticipate that his contraception mandate would result in a knock-down, drag-out fight with the most powerful religious institution in the world.

I'm not so sure this was an accident. He has turned an election on the economy, where he is a catastrophic failure, into one on the culture wars. He has a far better chance of getting his base to the polls if this is about putting Christians in their place than if this is about what a great economic central planner Obama might become.

[Tarantulas]

I was wondering what would happen if all the Muslims refused to pay taxes because some of the money went toward research about pigs. Sounds exactly the same as the Catholic complaint to me.

[mountainbunny]

I was wondering what would happen if all the Muslims refused to pay taxes because some of the money went toward research about pigs. Sounds exactly the same as the Catholic complaint to me.

Not the same at all. Taxes are put into a general fund. There are things that Catholics (Methodists, Muslims, Jews) don't like, and can complain about, but since it is in a general fund, you can't say whether or not your specific funds go to any specific place.

In this case, the church (mosque, synagogue) are being required to pay the insurance company directly to provide a service which is seen as sinful.

It would be like requiring Jews or Muslims to provide money directly to the pig farmer, who will now send bacon to all of their employees.

Except that it is even more egregious, since I'm unaware of Jews of Muslims having an issue with non-members eating pork.

[Dajjal]

Catholic ping

"You see, since people usually assume that others operate as they do, liberals naturally figure that religious feelings are just that: feelings.... They don’t understand that, like Peter being crucified upside down, there are people willing to die for what they believe.

"There are also people willing to kill for what they believe, and this brings us to the Muslim jihadists."