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The church is not being forced to provide birth control or abortions.
It isn’t about religion or liberty. It’s about property.
The church has the choice to get out of the hospital business and turn the buildings over to the federal government cheap as its first step (25% of all hospitals), besides the VA, in taking over all hospitals.
I believe that is and has been Obama’s only goal in this.
You can’t have “religious liberty” without “just plain liberty.”
Every country that has socialized medicine gives up liberty by the bucketful to enact their socialized medical schemes.
It would appear that the Church was naive enough to think that there was some path towards socialized medicine that was going to respect their “religious liberty” at the same time compromising the liberty of everyone else involved.
So, how’s that working out?
No employer or insurance company, religious or non-, should be forced to privilege anti-life drugs and surgery over the treatment of actual illness or injury. No copayment for contraceptives, but there is for statins? No deductible for sterilization surgery, but there is for angioplasty or joint replacement? Poppycock. (Thank you, Rick Santorum, for the great word, which is much more offensive than y’all think it is.)
Everyone should be against this ... especially every sick person, whose costs will go up so that some people can pretend there are no costs to their sexual behavior choices.
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Yes, and once the Catholic Church is driven out of the hospital business, one less protective buffer will exist between the people of this country and coercive population control policies like those that have been imposed upon the people of China.
This HHS mandate, if allowed to stand, is merely a "preview of coming attractions."
So people who want to keep yapping about "mean old mother church" had better take a good hard look at what the "wicked stepmother" will look like.
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