Cecilie1200
Diamond Member
I truly fail to see how this is violates the constitution's 1st amendment protections on the establishment of religion. If adherents of Catholicism truly agree with the RCC's position on reproductive rights, then they should avoid seeking those services - even if they are to be made available. No one is forcing a patient to accept birth control, not even the law could force the issue.
But, what of the rest of us non-Catholics? Are we to also be bound by the RCC's morals and religious teachings?
I believe that if these organisations both employ and provide services to people without regard to their particular faith, then they should be held to the same standard as any other employer or service provider.
The Church cannot pay for your health services if that service includes things that are against its doctrine... such as birth control and abortion. Don't like that? Fine, work for some other organization.
Forcing the Church to pay for services against its doctrine breaches the First Amendment. And soon, Mr Obama is gonna find out just how seriously Catholics take our doctrine - even those who, personally, choose to ignore that doctrine.
Obama should not have picked a fight with the Church - we don't just have God on our side... we have vast numbers of non-Catholics too.
What am I missing here? When did the price of contraception become so high that just buying it out-of-pocket became an impossibility? That it became so necessary to have one's health insurance pay for it that NOT having that became an affront to civil liberties?