Email to my Mom, who supports this garbage:
“You may want to try re-reading (or perhaps read it for the first time) the U.S. Constitution. You will find nowhere in the constitution the right for all women to be provided free contraception and abortion inducing drugs to be paid for by their employers. You say that it is about women’s rights. Well you need to think a little bit harder about that because women right NOW have the right take these drugs. What is contrary to the constitution is FORCING employers who disagree with contraception and/or abortion inducing drugs to provide these services to their employees. Obama’s position is an UNPRECEDENTED abridgement of freedom. As a business owner, I should not be FORCED to provide these drugs to my employees. If they don’t like it, they are always free to find another job or pay for these drugs with THEIR MONEY, just as I am free to fire them for whatever reason I see fit. Even if you subscribe to the idea that the government should mandate what type of healthcare coverage businesses provide, the last time I checked pregnancy was NOT a disease. These products are purely discretionary and no one deserves them simply because they are alive and they particularly don’t deserve them at MY EXPENSE. This is a question about whether we will continue to be a free people, or whether government will continue to dramatically expand the scope of its power and force people and businesses who do not share its values to tow the line and pay as a result. It sure as hell is NOT about women’s rights, since women RIGHT NOW have the RIGHT to use these drugs if they want to. Familiarize yourself with the Constitution and more particularly what rights it bestows on citizens and what limitations it places on the Federal Government. Then study why it is this has historically been the most powerful country in the world. Your position is indefensible based on the facts and the law.”
I remember him telling me two years ago that doctors who refuse to treat patients under Obama care should be shot. He was dead serious.
I have to say, he is consistent. We have to remember, many of these people are our friends, and we don't want to offend or appear judgmental. People in Nazi Germany had friends that thought Hitler was peachy kean. If a few had spoken up maybe history would have been different. The Bishops have called this intrinsically evil. A smart man I know said to me that the Bishops will have to draw a line. Be a democrat or be a catholic. You can't be both.