Yes, Obama said it very inartfully! But most people know what he meant if they really think about it and many obvisouly don't want to give him some slack. (BTW, I hated Obama until a few months ago when this women's rights thing went crazy and it got me to thinking that Obama would be a much better steward in that regard and in some others related to social issues).
Really? Are you one of those folks who just can't be free unless Catholics are paying for other people's birth control and abortifacients against their will???
Where does the Catholic church get its authority to impose its will and beliefs on others who don't believe the same way? No one is forcing Catholics to go against their will. They can personally do whatever they like but denying others is wrong. What if every religion got to impose their beliefs through legislation or in other ways on people who don't share them? I'm too old to need birth control or abortion but I care about other women.
You don't have a right to simply help yourself to some other citizen's property (money). Particularly not when it offends their citizen rights to practice their private religious beliefs.
Catholics don't prevent anyone from using birth control or abortifacients. Nothing they do results in the use of FORCE upon others for the sake of their religious beliefs. The FORCE is being used
against them, by virtue of being made to pay for what someone else's ideology thinks is correct. Refusing to pay for some woman's contraception isn't committing a direct action against her. It's a non-action.
Sometimes I'm just flabbergasted at the grotesque nature of the so-called "liberal" ideology, which has ZERO respect for individual citizens, viewing PEOPLE as little more than commodities. You've got NO RIGHT to take from one citizen, against his conscience, and make him complicit in activities which he believes to be not only morally reprehensible but a sin against his God.
If you people would bother yourselves for 15 measly minutes to actually contemplate the MEANING of Individual Liberty, maybe you wouldn't think we're all just property of the federal government, little different than Chinese peasants, to be ordered about on the state's arbitrary whims. But since you won't, you can't see the dividing line which was meant to protect the sovereignty of the citizen and LIMIT the power of government.
There aren't even enough bad words to describe the WRONG of you people... grotesque, appalling, despicable don't do justice.
You have NO constitutional right to **** with individual citizens in the pursuit of their happiness just so long as their exercise of it doesn't interfere with the like rights of any other individual citizen. THAT is the meaning of guaranteed liberty. There's no room in that for forcing people to engage in actions which insult their conscience.
This all leads back to Barack Obama's insane assertion that people don't build their own businesses. It's the same disgusting insult to the ideals which FOUNDED this country... that people are endowed by God, or Nature if it pleases you, with certain unalienable rights inherent to our condition as human beings. We're not cogs in some goddamn collectivist machine to serve people who are AFRAID to live their own lives.
