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• ‘We Will Not Comply’: Catholic Leaders Distribute Letter Slamming Obama Admin Contraceptive Mandate

  February 4, 2012 at 10:32am

  I am wondering what is the cause of all this heated rethoric here! No constitutional rights are being violated, taken away and no-one is being forced to use new services covered in health plans. It’s all up to each individual and their religious conscience! To me it looks more like an attempt to make sure that there are certain basic and important health care services that need to be included in any health plan. ‘who of you would automatically watch porn on TV just because the channel is available in your package? Each person weighs their actions against their own conscience taking into account their religious beliefs. You don’t need to refrain from having the TV package all together! Why can’t the church trust its faithful to follow their religious conscience in this matter as in everything else? It seems exagerated to me and smacks more of a Republican attack on the Democrats than anything else!

• ‘We Will Not Comply’: Catholic Leaders Distribute Letter Slamming Obama Admin Contraceptive Mandate

  February 4, 2012 at 10:22am

  In reply to momrules.

  I am wondering about the cause of this heated rethoric. No constitutional rights are being taken away – Catholics and anyone else is free as ever to exercise and follow their religious conscience! Just say NO to using the new services included in your health plan! ! The fact is, that this is an attempt standardize which procedures need to be covered in any health plan offered to employees. It has nothing to do with forcing anyone. Just because most basic TV packages include pornographic channels, doesn’t mean that everyone will automatically watch them or that people need to ditch the TV-provider! Is the Catholic church afraid that catholics will not follow their own religious conscience? Is that why they need to make sure that no-one has access to offending procedures, regardless of that individual’s convictions? There is no conspiracy! Wake up! Lots of catholics are already using contraception. This smacks more of a Republican attack on Democrats than anything else!