Seriously: Can Someone Please Explain to Me Why

[snot]

it's so unthinkable to require Catholics to help finance others' contraception; yet I could go to jail if I refused to help pay for our wars – notwithstanding that my conviction of their immorality is every bit as strong as any Catholic's conviction of the immorality of contraception?

I truly don't get it.

[shraby]

1. That one is beyond my comprehension too. It takes a bigger bullshitter than me to

explain it.

[Warren DeMontague]

2. Because they need all that money to pay settlements for the child abusing priests they protected.

[HubertHeaver]

3. I believe that is what Nuns refered to as a Mystery.

[Brickbat]

12. Hee!

Nice one!

[Warpy]

4. The Catholics don't mind! Most of them use it, too!

It's those old maids in dresses and funny hats who are pitching a fit about it, funded by the insurance industry. Insurance plans have long fought anything pertaining to the health of women which is why women who want to get pregnant have to pay triple premiums for family plans before they even go off contraception to try to get pregnant.

It's insane. Everything that happens to a male is fully covered. Only things that happen to both sexes are covered for women.

[snot]

5. Understood –

so my convictions re- war are even stronger than most Catholics' re- contraception!

[krispos42]

6. You mean forcing the TAX-EXEMP religious organizations to pay for others' contraception?

Hmmmm... who makes up for their lack of tax payments?


Oh yeah. Me.

[snot]

11. Good point!

I also indirectly subsidize their efforts to propagate an anti-contraceptive, anti-homosexual doctrines I also find deeply, morally objectionable!

[dimbear]

7. Serious answer. There are lots of Catholics, few pacifists.

There you go.

[Live and Learn]

8. As a Catholic (not a "good" one)

You've got me there.

[quakerboy]

9. Wars make people rich. Contraception does not.

You have no rights in the face of money.

[MADem]

10. But they ARE financing it--they just got bamboozled, you see.

Insurance is "pay"--just like a paycheck is "pay." It's part of one's "pay and benefits" package, along with that parking space and that two weeks of vacation and those federal holidays that are given off.

That insurance company, when they are doing the math, will make damn sure they aren't reaching into their pockets to pay for anything they don't absolutely have to--it's just a bullshit "cooking the books" game so that the Men In Dresses With Backward Collars can pretend they have some sort of silly victory.

Smoke and mirrors is all it is, at the end of the day.

If you belonged to the Church of I Hate War that had lots of money, power, and political influence, you'd probably be in a better position WRT your views. It would also help if the peoples of the world, all around the world, had a more peaceful nature.

[craigmatic]

13. Simple- these chruches are a political group just like corporations and you are a lone individual.

Thay shouldn't be taking federal money in the first place.

[Skidmore]

14. War issues aside...

why should anyone of us be forced to bend to the will of the Vatican, which is considered a sovereign state. Why should those people who are not members of that institution have those beliefs thrust upon them.