Why should access to birth control trump religious freedom?
One thing we can be sure of: the Catholic Church will shut down before it violates its faith. We saw that recently when Catholic adoption and foster-care services closed in Massachusetts and Illinois rather than comply with state mandates that they place children with gay parents. Who lost? Parentless children.
The administration has to know this, so why would it force the hand of Catholic institutions that have traditionally filled in the gaps in social services that the government failed to provide? The people who will suffer if they close their doors are the poor, refugees, the homeless, orphans, and the elderly…
Judge Andrew Napolitano, the Catholic libertarian Fox Business News host, tells me, “Most Catholic families do not follow the teachings on the church on contraceptives. It is their most unpopular and privately disregarded of the teachings in the modern era. However, what the government is doing is utterly reprehensible from a constitutional perspective. It’s a core teaching of the church, whether it is accepted by the public or not. This is interfering with the free exercise of religion.”
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Herp derp “war on relgon” derp.
mythicknight on February 7, 2012 at 8:05 PM
I don’t know. Why should a “right” to kill your babies trump state’s rights when it’s not mentioned in the Constitution anywhere?
wildcat72 on February 7, 2012 at 8:05 PM
There may be hope for KP yet.
WisRich on February 7, 2012 at 8:06 PM
Because, unlike religion, birth control is speifically mentioned in the First Amendment, right?
vermin on February 7, 2012 at 8:06 PM
One session with an Exorcist, and KP would leave the donks for good.
Southernblogger on February 7, 2012 at 8:09 PM
Why? It’s a simple test of faith. Which is more important, people’s faith in Government or their faith in their Church? In obozo’s world there can be only one.
Flange on February 7, 2012 at 8:09 PM
Because religious freedom to liberals is, to use their phrase, “freedom to worship.” That’s all.
You can worship as you want behind closed doors on your sabbath with the clergy you choose to ordain.
But once you exit your house of worship, you are in the secular world, and comply with its values, using its vocabulary.
Wethal on February 7, 2012 at 8:14 PM
The ultimate goal is single payer. This is but one more step in that direction.
meci on February 7, 2012 at 8:14 PM
I gave up on this lady longtime ago
liberal4life on February 7, 2012 at 8:16 PM
She’s Catholic, and she’s always been pro-life.
Esthier on February 7, 2012 at 8:17 PM
It is obvious that you are one unhappy person. Pretty sad.
CW on February 7, 2012 at 8:18 PM
Why you say Kirsten? Simple, it will force them to turn to the Government for those services. Ain’t a “bug” it’s a feature KP. Your party is evil. (but you my dear are still hot)
Tim Zank on February 7, 2012 at 8:18 PM
What? Because you would not know “reasonable ” if it hit you in the face?
CW on February 7, 2012 at 8:19 PM
Left. War. Religion.
faraway on February 7, 2012 at 8:20 PM
Andrew Napolitano seems like a great guy but I’d rather take my constitutional opinion from my dog than from him.
He’s just….well…bow wow.
SteveMG on February 7, 2012 at 8:22 PM
My My right below the picture of Obama Kirsten writes:
meci on February 7, 2012 at 8:24 PM
She says she’s not Catholic in the article. “I’m not Catholic. I support contraception. But this is madness.”
theperfecteconomist on February 7, 2012 at 8:25 PM
My mistake. She is Christian and pro-life.
Esthier on February 7, 2012 at 8:26 PM
As others have noted, she’s not Catholic and she was pro-choice until about 2-3 years ago.
But she’s against overturning Roe. Anti-abortion but pro-Wade?
That doesn’t make sense to me but it apparently does to her.
SteveMG on February 7, 2012 at 8:26 PM
“I glorify
in Lenin
World faith
and glorify my faith
”Mayakovsky, 1920
“O great Stalin, O leader of the peoples,
Thou who broughtest man to birth.
Thou who fructifies the earth,
Thou who restorest to centuries,
Thou who makest bloom the spring,
Thou who makest vibrate the musical chords…
Thou, splendour of my spring, O thou,
Sun reflected by millions of hearts.”
Hymn to Stalin
“thou shalt smile!
for our President is smiling
just a man openly smiling…
let him beam
let his raw laughter flow where the fruited plains have faded, have dried.
let them slowly soak it up, that nurturing laughter.
let all the hillsides bloom with colors that no one’s seen for eight long years.
let Obama laughter ring. long may it
let it flood the high skies and tie sparkling wonder up in a silver bow.”
Diane Wald, Starting Today, 100 Poems for Obama’s first 100 Days
Shiny_Tiara on February 7, 2012 at 8:27 PM
She’s pro life because she is 40+ and trying to get a kid out of her dying eggs. Most libs marry in their 40′s or never.
wildcat72 on February 7, 2012 at 8:28 PM
That’s arguable.
MadDogF on February 7, 2012 at 8:28 PM
No, she’s not a Christian but she does believe in some sort of God.
From her Wiki page:
SteveMG on February 7, 2012 at 8:28 PM
Unless you are Muslim, then the state must make accomodations. lots of them
Tim Zank on February 7, 2012 at 8:29 PM
It isn’t just the left, apparently a small minority on our side deeply hates religion as well, see Good SS LT, keep the change mengele, and pablo escobar honey.
MadDogF on February 7, 2012 at 8:30 PM
Well, you got everything wrong about her except that she is indeed a female.
Congratulations on that.
SteveMG on February 7, 2012 at 8:30 PM
Such as atheist AP?
You can’t be an atheist and be conservative. Our rights are INALIENABLE because they come from GOD.
wildcat72 on February 7, 2012 at 8:31 PM
Pretty scary. It amazes me that we’ve gone from “question authority” to “fawn and obey authority”.
Flange on February 7, 2012 at 8:34 PM
As Thulsa Doom said, “now contemplate this on the tree of woe”
BobMbx on February 7, 2012 at 8:38 PM
New term for those that question authority:
“Sovereign citizen“.
BobMbx on February 7, 2012 at 8:40 PM
For the same reason that it does for many other medical services.
lester on February 7, 2012 at 8:41 PM
FIFY
BobMbx on February 7, 2012 at 8:50 PM
It’s been longer than that. Time to back myself up, I guess.
Not sure if the video will work for you (it’s not for me), but I believe this is where she calls herself pro-life.
As to the Christian part:
Wiki isn’t the best source. Besides, for my point, it’s that she identifies as a Christian and as pro-life or at least as someone who does not like abortion.
The only point being, that this isn’t some departure for her. This is expected.
Esthier on February 7, 2012 at 8:50 PM
Well as she explains in her piece, this isn’t about abortion or Christianity; it’s about religious freedom versus the state imposing its views on it.
It could be Hindu or Buddhists and dietary requirements. The state has no business interfering in such matters.
SteveMG on February 7, 2012 at 9:04 PM
It’s not when I’m talking about it either, but if you know that I’m a pro-life Christian, you won’t be surprised to learn my opinion on this subject. That’s all I was saying.
Esthier on February 7, 2012 at 9:10 PM
Who knew this whole thing was hidden in Romneycare that the health service can just change the rules mid game.
Oh wait that was Obmamcare not Romenycare, well some say they are the same so Romenycare must forces all the catholic hospitals in Boston to do this so there is no real change in the state of Massachusetts.
tjexcite on February 7, 2012 at 9:24 PM
Apparently you have given up on the Constitution, the First Amendment, the freedoms they provide, common sense, and the ability to think like a rational human being who understands we live in a nation that is supposed to be free from this kind of tyranny. That said you should give up on Hotair next and take our nonsense some where it might be apprecitated like your local mental institution or Comminist China. KP is a 100% correct in her assessment of this power grab and blatent disregard for the laws of the land. You sir are an ignoramus and as Anti-American as they come. How can one be pro American and hate our Constitution as much as you leftists do?
You’re not fooling anyone. We know you hate this place. If you didn’t you wouldn’t try so hard to change it for the worse and trample on anyone’s freedoms who disagree with you EVEN WHEN there are laws in place that are supposed to protect people of faith from tyrants like you and your ilk.
Do all of us who still believe in freedom and GTFO of our country.
jawkneemusic on February 7, 2012 at 9:31 PM
It shouldn’t. Anyone who says otherwise is simply looking for excuses for a lack of self control.
CurtZHP on February 7, 2012 at 9:35 PM
I honestly think this decision and the Keystone pipeline decision (and many others I’m sure before the election) were purposeful.
Obama makes a totally leftist decision; his base is happy. He backs down in the name of freedom or religion or jobs or GOP pressure; his opponents are happy, they feel they’ve won something.
They’re back to the status quo on everything. Obama gets to brag in the campaign. He looks like a statesman. Win-win.
PattyJ on February 7, 2012 at 9:58 PM
The Emperor will murder us all if we don’t conform to his fatherly dictates. This is the latest, boldest move and they are only going to get worse.
Props to Powers – she finally said something sensible. As for the bulk of the media, they should all be hung as collaborating traitors in the destruction of a once great nation.
Mr Galt on February 7, 2012 at 10:04 PM
No one said women can’t have access to it. Just saying they don’t want to contribute to it. BIG dif.
Oink on February 7, 2012 at 10:27 PM
Here is why Obama is successful with whatever he does: He does it, we moan about it for a day, then we don’t ever speak of it again. The media never covers what he is doing to America, which leaves it to us, and we fail. Drudge, Hotair, Foxnews, RightScoop…no mentions after a day or two of the contraceptive edict from Obama, which by the way obliterates the Constitution. Do you think he knows us? Of course he does. We have ourselves to blame.
daveweber on February 8, 2012 at 9:46 AM