10 Catholic Teachings Conservatives Reject While Obsessing About Birth Control
10 Catholic Teachings Conservatives Reject While Obsessing About Birth Control
The right wing Republican politicians who have been denouncing the requirement that female employees have access to birth control as part of their health benefits as an attack on religious freedom completely ignore the church teachings they don’t agree with. Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are both Catholics, and wear their faith on their sleeves, but they are hypocritical in picking and choosing when they wish to listen to the bishops.
1. So for instance, Pope John Paul II was against anyone going to war against Iraq I think you’ll find that Rick Santorum managed to ignore that Catholic teaching.
2.The Conference of Catholic Bishops requires that health care be provided to all Americans. I.e., Rick Santorum’s opposition to universal health care is a betrayal of the Catholic faith he is always trumpeting.
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I'm a moderate Catholic and I have absolutely no use for right-wing cafeteria Catholics who sit in judgment of left-wing Catholics who don't always follow the Church's teaching regarding abortion and birth control, to the point of ratting them out to right-wing Opus Dei bishops who'd deny them Communion, all while the right-wing heretics not only callously disregard the Church's social teachings, e.g., economic and social justice, fair wages, immigration issues, welfare issues, etc., but they sanctimoniously and behind closed doors cheat on their spouses and get/pay for abortions on the QT.
The heretics have taken over. I love the Church; I just can't stand the guys in charge, especially the big shots from Opus Dei and Legion of Christ, two organizations which were founded by abusers of women and children, respectively, pulling the strings of the bishops. The church needs devout, clergy uninvolved in politics and difficult to corrupt by power.
On a side note, I resent and am very pissed off at the broad-brush attacks on the Catholic Church, all because the church has to answer to a higher authority than popular opinion. AFAIC, a broad-brush attack on the Church is an attack on me, personally. Warning: I will start to send alerts for abusive behavior if I see one more anti-Catholic hate post. 
