Explain to me why/how birth control is a religious or govt issue at all.

[BigmanPigman]

Isn't it a health issue? What century are we living in?

[Baconator]

1. Some on the right would make the same claim...

"It's not the role of the government to dictate what coverage (BC) that a provider or employer must provide"

[lapfog_1]

6. My religion says that GOD will cure cancer

so I don't want to pay for my employees to be covered for cancer...

I guess that's good too, right?

[Baconator]

7. It's on someone's list...

[brooklynite]

2. It's a Government issue because ACA required health insurers to provide it...

[MineralMan]

3. Well, see...religion is good for you. Everyone needs religion.

And government...where would we be without government meddling in our lives?

The Godly know that you should have lots and lots of babies. And the government knows that it's a lot of religious people out there. So, never mind that birth control stuff. Go and make babies. Lots of babies. More worshipers and voters, dontcha know?

[MindPilot]

4. 15th?

The same way drug addiction and mental health issues are law enforcement problems.

[unblock]

5. my religion says people who ask questions like that should be burned at the stake

[ProudLib72]

19. What religion are you?

OH CRAP! I TAKE IT BACK! I TAKE IT BACK!

[Zoonart]

8. F-O-R-N-I-C-A-T-I-O-N

The religious right controls the GOP.

[Major Nikon]

14. Yep, no shortage of religious nuts who think sexual attraction is the work of the devil

Inevitably this leads to a lot of guilt and self-loathing from which the rest of society must pay provided anyone gives them any degree of political power, and the Banana Republicans are more than happy to hand it over.

[Mariana]

9. Some Christians believe God will punish THEM

if someone ELSE commits this or that particular special sin. So they want those particular special sins made illegal. It's really fucked up.

[Major Nikon]

15. Either that or they don't trust themselves not to sin

[Greybnk48]

10. We are in the Era of the Dotard, lobbing red meat

to his christo-fascist followers like it's rolls of paper towels.

[Irish_Dem]

11. It is a control issue, designed to humiliate and punish women. Force them to be pregnant.

Force them to beg or pay for birth control.
And to get back alley abortions.
Humiliating and dangerous.

Women have been treated as second class citizens for millennia.
They have been controlled by men.

The GOP males seem to be fine with abortion and birth control when it comes to their girl friends.

[BigmanPigman]

12. ...and mistresses.

What good, moral Christian hypocrites they are.

[Irish_Dem]

13. Exactly. nt

[marybourg]

16. The doctrine of freedom of religion

allows a religion to include any (legal)dogma it wants: eat not pigs; cover thy head; have many children. The adherents to religions believe these are the pronouncements of a supreme being whose rules must be obeyed, or unthinkable punishment will ensue.

Sometimes this belief causes adherents to believe that everyone must obey deity-given rules, even those who deny the existence of this, or any, deity. Sometimes, in order to show the strength of their beliefs, adherents seek to show that they must obey these rules even at a remove. They can't appear to be condoning someone else's flouting of the rule, in this case to " be fruitful and multiply " and not to " spill (one's) seed upon the ground".

The government under an illegitimate ruler seeks to gain legitimacy by making common cause with the most pious and conservative of the citizens. Ancient Rome? modern U.S.?

[Cicada]

17. The Catholic rule is dont fool with mother nature

God provided for birth after sex. Birth control interferes with nature, interferes with God’s rules of biology. Of course nature also creates polio, Spanish flu, etc yet Catholics can fool with Mother Nature there. But the Catholic ban on birth control is “religious.”

[BigmanPigman]

18. I know about Catholics and I won't go there...

since I could go on and on forever.

However, The Donald is not Catholic and neither are most of the people who have been anti-choice, anti female birth control, etc. since Moses. They are using religion as an excuse to control women as the fucking church has done for a few thousand years. Now instead of the fucking church it is the fucking white, older GOP men. Same old, same old.

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