Reply #59: and they have been also preaching against birth control [View All]

[Malva Zebrina]

since it came on the market. And still do, last time I looked. Yet, we see no preaching or no question of a presidential candidate about his position on birth control.

The problem rests when it becomes significant in skewing a presidential election,and in this case, against a distructive fascist, ignoring the fact, as Kerry said, that were he to be elected, he would have many different people, of all persuasions under his watch and that they ALL have to be protected under the law of the Constitution. Which was a position a Democrat would take or would have taken. Further, the protection of the minority from the tyranny of the majority, is a precept upon which this country is founded.

THAT is when it becomes , not a church, or a religion, but a political movement whose relligious idiology has NO place in the secular government. It is no better than Pat Robertson's attempt to make this a Christian nation, infiltrating political venues, and stealthily introducing Christian Reconstructionist ideology into it.

It is fine to preach it to it's believers. Let them be that influential in guiding their own believers,(although they have not had much success with birth control pills) but let them not try to be the guide for the entire nation.

It is disturbing how critical thinking, or knowledge of the Constitution, is avoided, and how bright eyed and bushy tailed men and women, flush with holiness, from the political propaganda preached on the pulpit by perhaps a Republican priest, or an Opus Dei priest, set out to hurt other people, mostly because, or at the least, unconsciously, because, they fear going to hell or the wrath of their god who will PUNISH THEM--they therefore seek to punish all WOMEN, in the grand old patriarchal tradition, in order to save their own souls.

This movement in the Catholic church is flush with excitement over a possible "win" re abortion, eager to see women and their rights, diminished and very comfortable knowing that their children do not have to grow up in a country that supposedly respects the rights of all people in it by allowing abortion and women's health clinics to continue.

That they are comfortable knowing they would be hurting and maybe even tacitly responsible for the death of a women who would be relegated to back alley abortions once more, says a lot about the church's adamant stand to seem to need to harm another human being, a woman in this case, or at best, it's forced pregnancy of a twelve or thirteen year old child.