[Albion Wilde]

bttt

[nevergore]

As a conservative Catholic, I believe Jindahl was right.....

Let each individuals personal conscience and religious beliefs govern their choices....

They will eventually have to reconcile their choices with God...

[Shadow44]

“And for his pains, he received a slap on the wrist from his local archdiocese.”

Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi never seemed bothered. What are they going to do, Excommunicate them? It’s not like Canon Law permits them to do...wait.

[SuziQ]

Well the Archdiocese had to make its statement, to make their point, but the Governor has one as well. By making them available without prescription, they're taken out of the realm of prescription drug coverage, and thus out of the health coverage issue. Besides, those who are going to use them aren't going to pay attention to what the Church teaches anyway; they haven't for the past 40 years.

The only way to reach them is to explain Humanae Vitae, and most priests don't even understand it, so they've never talked about it in their sermons. At least I've never heard a sermon about it, since I became an adult, in the 7 parishes of which I've been a member in 5 states, over the past 40 years.

[Bayard]

As a devout Catholic, the argument that this is an appropriate application of liberty is a sham. Liberty is not about being able to do anything you want. This is a false idea of freedom. No society could function if it was. Freedom entails the freedom for excellence for a human being.

There is nothing of excellence in our contraceptive culture. There is only abandonment of responsible behavior, an enshrined right in our culture today.

The Church is right on this one.

[waynesa98]

Just a few thoughts by a conservative libertarian agnostic. The inventor of the pill called it the worst mistake he ever made and wanted to outlaw it. Next, track divorce rates and the destruction of the family vs increase in female oral contraception use. Research shows that pheromones signal how similar your are(genetically) to a potential partner(thus less is more attractive.) Current genetic/sociological theory points to the corruption(via the introduction of biosimalar hormones, IE the pill) of the pheromone feed back loop to the strength of the family. You date on the pill, start a family(off the pill) and it falls apart.

So why would there be a anti genetically similar tendency in parental coupling? Its the same reason incest is outlawed in most societies. If you need a reason I’ll post a treatise, but 99.997 of you understand. This is why thinking, logical grownups need to rethink all advances as information advances. Thalidomide is now a very successful chemotherapy drug, and saccharine has been exonerated.

[Pollster1]

Jindal is right. If Catholics are permitted to vote for Obama, which is a massively evil act, how can the Church leadership honestly object to advocating for free will on birth control? It would be nice to remove employers from any involvement with “reproductive rights” - and let the perpetually amorous Sandra Fluke pay for her own hobby.

[DBeers]

If the Catholic bishops really wanted their schools and hospitals as well as any employer with religious scruples to be exempt from the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate, they would be helping the Obama Administration find a way to provide free contraceptive coverage to all women–or at least not getting in the way of the Administration’s doing so.

You post this leftist trash and call it conservative? Religious freedom is inherent and inalienable -it is NOT something to be wanted nor something to be negotiated from and acquirement from government -get a clue!!!!

You disagree with the Church and want contraception legal -fine! Do you have to push a leftist theme to promote such evil -it seems so....