Judge's order cancels event that would have blocked sole entrance to a Kansas abortion clinic

[ShazzieB]

1. The Catholic Church REALLY needs to stop trying to control the behavior of non-catholics.

I'm not Catholic, and I don't recognize the Catholic Church as having any authority over the way I live my life. I'm not interested in the Pope's opinion on abortion, birth control, who should have sex with whom, or really just about anything.

The same goes for every other religious body that I don't belong to. They have the right to believe whatever they want, and they have the right to enjoin adherence to those beliefs on their members. They DO NOT have the right to enforce adherence to their beliefs on anyone else, either by pushing for the passage of laws based on those beliefs or by other means, including blocking access to public facilities that don't adhere to their beliefs. The fact that some religious bodies (including but not limited to the Catholic Church) seem to think they have that right is deeply offensive to me.

PLEASE NOTE: This is NOT a religion bashing post, and I hope it won't be taken that way. I don't hate religion as a concept and I don't hate any particular religious groups. I recognize and support freedom of religon: i.e., the right to worship/practice the religion of one's choice, OR NONE, as the case may be. I support the rights of all to believe or NOT believe in a Supreme Being or deities of any kind, and I whole-heartedly support the rights of all to NOT believe in any such beings. All I am saying is that religious groups need to STAY IN THEIR OWN DAMNED LANE and leave the rest of us the hell alone.