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by Tara Isabella Burton at Vox
https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/10/7/16259952/birth-control-evangelical-agenda
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In this, the evangelical stance on the ACA birth control mandate reflects a wider issue: the increased convergence of Catholics and evangelical Protestants hardly historical allies on social issues in the past few decades, as issues like the same-sex marriage debate and abortion have united the two socially conservative groups. As David Talbot, professor of philosophy at Kings College and an expert in Christian sexual ethics, told Vox, Catholic and conservative evangelicals have become allies of certain kinds, each defending the interests of other, as theological and philosophical overlap between the two.
Recent research supports the idea of overlap between traditional Catholic and Protestant thought. Earlier this fall, a Pew Research Center study found that average Protestants more often than not assert traditionally Catholic teachings about, among other things, the nature of salvation or the role of church teaching, reflecting a cultural crossover however unconscious between the two groups.
In contrast to the Catholic stance, the current set of evangelical objections to the ACA birth control mandate have less to do with any formal doctrine about birth control per se than they do about wider cultural issues, including the abortion debate, the aftermath of the sexual revolution, and precedents for religious exemptions more generally.
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When Hobby Lobby filed its 2012 lawsuit objecting to the mandate on religious grounds with the Supreme Court ultimately ruling in its favor it didnt do so because of a general objection to birth control. Rather, it did so because certain forms of birth control, including Plan B, also known as the "morning after pill, could be considered an abortifacient because it prevents implantation of an already fertilized egg. Hobby Lobby founder David Green wrote in a 2012 op-ed for USA Today: Being Christians, we dont pay for drugs that might cause abortions. Which means that we dont cover emergency contraception, the morning-after pill or the week-after pill. We believe doing so might end a life after the moment of conception, something that is contrary to our most important beliefs.
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no_hypocrisy
(46,067 posts)dhol82
(9,352 posts)That one gets a real workout in the evangelical areas.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)SamKnause
(13,091 posts)They can take their Christian Theocracy and shove it where the sun don't shine.
I am sick to death of these fucking hypocrites.
Their Jesus or God would not want to be associated with them in any way.
Liars and cons in the name of Christianity.
Fuck all of them.
Mariana
(14,854 posts)that birth control pills (and IUD's, too) work by causing abortions. Many of them routinely call Plan B and ordinary daily BC pills "abortion pills". Don't ask me how they came to this ridiculous conclusion, I have no idea. What matters is that they believe it, and are willing to make and enforce laws based on their belief.
applegrove
(118,597 posts)birth control, to encourage the base it light of the fact they can't successfully make abortion illegal across the US. Something to satisfy them in a like way.