Tim Kaine splits with Obama on birth control rule for religious groups

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29. Like millions of my fellow Americans I choose to leave the Catholic Church over birth control.

While maybe a minority of practicing Catholics may oppose contraception, the vast majority of childbearing age actively employ contraceptive measures. Numerous surveys attest to this fact. I would like to remind Catholics that John XXIII formed a commission to investigate the morality of contraception. Unfortunately, before the commission completed its work he died and was succeeded by Paul VI.

Even after the Vatican cronies attempted to appoint bishops opposing change, the commission voted to recommend a change in the church's teaching. A major factor was the future Pope John Paul II who had been appoint to the commission but boycotted it and even went as far as lying that he couldn't get a travel visa. The Polish government stated that they had never denied him a exit visa the intire time that he residend in Poland. In fact he made numerous trips to several countries with many trips to the Vatican. The fact was that he was directing the writing of want would become the church's reaffirmation of the church's teaching. The primary reason that was given was that if the church reversed itself the papacy would lose credibility since it had strenuously condemned contraception for years. It had nothing to do with providing Catholics with morally reasonable family planning options.

It must also be recognised that Pope John Paul II led a campaign to replace EVERY bishop who disagreed with his anti-sexual teachings. As a consequence the present bishops are traditionalists that have attempted to return the church back into the Dark Ages. They absolutely do not represent the average catholic on a number issues and are as intellectually bankrupt as the cult of Opus Dei that presently dominates the Catholic Church.