“But pro-choice groups said they will fight the church and fight for the right of employees of Catholic institutions to have birth control and other services paid for.”
I don’t get it. Is it no longer possible to buy condoms and other forms of birth control? Oh! This is about making OTHER people pay for one’s condoms, including people who have religious objections to birth control itself. Now I get it.
As far as that goes, I don’t know why religious objections are the main point of contention. The REAL problem is people who think they have a right to force everyone else to pay for whatever they want and use the federal government as a tool to browbeat their fellow citizens. Religious objections, although important, are not the larger issue which is tyranny!
This is worth repeating. We've been in a state of soft tyranny for a long time. WE complain about this or that infraction of our Rights and nothing happens, nothing has been fought for, or our concerns have been passed out of hand by the courts for the 'greater good.'
Now the 'hardness of tyranny' begins. Even if the Catholic Church "wins" this mandate ruling as un-Constitutional we have already witnessed court rulings mean little to this government. So the Church wins and what of the faithful forced by their private / public sector employers whose insurance policies will extract the money from them as part of the group coverage? Is this not against the teachings and morals of Catholics/Christians as well? Are not Rights afforded to the individual in these matters?
As Catholics and Christians if one were to consider all the things the 'public' forces onto us and like sheep to slaughter we've handed over our Rights in the name of political correctness.
There's only one way to make it stop.