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I see. So when you get in a car accident on some highway and need immediate care to save your life, you'll insist that they take you to a Catholic hospital even though it might be 3 times as far as the nearest hospital? Well, good luck with that.

It would probably help your understanding if you didn't work off the assumption that Catholics were ignoramuses. Nothing Herman said would lead a reasonable person to conclude that he would turn down emergency care from a competent source.

For elective care we are free to elect doctors and hospitals of our choice. Is that difficult to understand?

"For elective care we are free to elect doctors and hospitals of our choice. Is that difficult to understand?"

Try reading our entire exchange. I discussed an emergency situation. He responded by saying he wouldn't choose a musim doctor. I again mentioned an emergency. He said he'd choose a Catholic hospital. I again mentioned an emergency, which, by necessity, limits election. If I'm talking about an emergency and someone keeps bringing up choice as the most important factor in said situation, it hardly seems inappropriate for me to reiterate my point. If someone like yourself feels the need to get bent out of shape over my desire to keep the discussion on point, that's hardly my problem. Is that difficult to understand?

"It would probably help your understanding if you didn't work off the assumption that Catholics were ignoramuses. Nothing Herman said would lead a reasonable person to conclude that he would turn down emergency care from a competent source."

I am Catholic. As to your second statement, that all depends on his definition of competent source, doesn't it?

It would probably help your understanding if you didn't work off the assumption that Catholics were ignoramuses.

Well Hermann isn't exactly doing much to refute that assumption, now is he? :P Seriously, people like him repulse and frighten me just as much as the Iranian Mullahs (and the only difference between these fanatics, at the end of the day, is whatever religion they declare is "right"). If I could gather all his posts, show them to the mainstream American public, and somehow convince them that this (e.g. not performing therapeutic abortions because women *should* die in childbirth, it's their "nature") was the Republican platform - Hillary would win by the biggest landslide in American history.

The following quote by C.S. Lewis has been posted here many times before, but it bears repeating, since it tells us why religious fanatics of *any* stripe must never be allowed to come to power:

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.