No one has infringed on ANY Church’s right to practice their religion. In fact those self-same religious institutions are infringing on MY rights to not live in a secular society without hearing their non-stop religious preaching or having their rules imposed upon me. Freedom of AND from religion is what this Country was founded upon, argue it six ways from Sunday if you like, I have the Constitution on my side. IF they insist on getting perks from the government, then they abide by the rules. Period. They want tax-exempt status AS a Church, obey the rules to provide proper healthcare IN their businesses to everyone. Or give up your tax exempt status. It’s very straight forward. Why should I pay for YOUR church’s exemptions? You’re infringing on MY rights, then. Perhaps you might stop listening to the likes of Rick Santorum and your Catholic Bishops and please do some actual critical thinking of your own. This nonsense of labeling the President with a ‘socialist’ label because you read it somewhere or heard it in Church IS just that – nonsense. If caring about women’s health makes him a socialist, then you can label every woman who’s used contraception a socialist and every woman who cares about their own and their childrens’ health a socialist; every American who gives to those less fortunate than themselves a socialist. What about Food kitchens run by those self-same Churches..aren’t they ‘socialist’ in nature? In fact – go ahead: Label us all ‘socialists’. I’ll wear the label proudly if it means I’m not a narrow-minded religious bigot who can’t see further than my own nose.

Jeanne: I can see how you’d feel that way, but Obama wasn’t at undermining Roman Catholic teachings–he was saying that R. Catholic *hospitals*–which often treat *non*-Roman Catholics as well as those of their faith–would be required for to *cover* (pay for) the contraceptives that are approved by FDA–the actual prescribing of them is optional and based on the individual patient’s dialoguing with their primary care physician and/or gynecologist about what the best approach is for them.
It’s basically saying–in response to your thing re religious freedoms–that Roman Catholic Church run *hospitals* cannot force *their* religious beliefs regarding contraception on patients who might not *share* their Roman Rite Catholic Christian beliefs–because R. Catholic hospitals do indeed treat anyone and everyone under their insurance regardless of faith.

Soon you, as a woman, will NOT have any rights … possibly not to work outside the home or to vote. Your choices on how many children to have will be taken away. You will NOT receive help to raise all the babies that Republicans will force you to have. Additionally, they are working on not even helping you if you’re a victim of domestic violence or rape. They want to make it so a cop doesn’t have to arrest an abusive husband, even if they see your eyes swollen shut, your limbs broken, cuts, bruises and stab wounds. They want to require the cop to actually SEE THE ABUSE TAKING PLACE. So they would leave you there with the abuser, so he could finish off the job if he wished.

“Socialism” is another of the Republican “buzz words” being used to attack this president. All these organizations have been in place, AND our rights, for decades. He has compromised and given in to the other side REPEATEDLY to the point where he lost much of his base. It is the REPUBLICANS who stab us in the back and who won’t cooperate and have publicly declared they will obstruct and do whatever they have to, even if the country fails, just so Obama is a 1-term president. They are pouring BILLIONS of dollars into the campaign to try to BUY the Presidency via lies and distortions via THEIR CORPORATE-OWNED MEDIA. I think, Jeanne, you need to wise up instead of sitting there safely behind your little computer and calling the president “socialist” because you want to protect un-born fetuses … YET your side believe pro-life ENDS at birth.

The Catholic Church has no business in personal decisions of women. Their attempt to rule the lives of women is based on no first hand or even close experience, no understanding, no actual facts and no science. The Catholic Church is run entirely by men who have first and foremost forsaken any relationship with women and who protect those among them (many of them) who have sexually assaulted children for their demented criminal proclivities. The congregation who funds them are their actual enablers and thus also criminals. The entire Catholic Church leadership should be in jail for covering up crimes against children. And to accept their pronouncements as if they are legitimate is absurd. They are worse than the Taliban.

They have taken over hospitals throughout the country. Many communities have no alternative health care. Women who work there are just as needful of real medical care at a reasonable price as any other women.

If you let the Catholic Church punish you for sex by forcing you into unwanted pregnancy or to carry an unwanted pregnancy, that is about as sick as anything could possibly be. Punish sex by forcing the creation of a child? How could such a child possibly become a confidant, loving, competent person having been the product of duress and unwantedness? The Catholic criminals are doing everything in their power to degrade the human race.

Until you sign up to receive already frozen blastocysts and carry them to term, one after another, I do not believe a word you have to say on this subject, as you really do not care about continuing ‘life,’ just about making others do it.

My religious beliefs allow for the use of contraception. I don’t want to be limited by another church’s beliefs.