On 7/1/2014 3:51 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2014-07-01 3:07 PM, ImStillMags wrote:
>> For those who are not in the US, or have been living under a rock,
>> the Supreme court ruled today that corporations who claim religious
>> objections to birth control may exempt themselves from covering birth
>> control in their health insurance plans. I'm not a lawyer, and I
>> won't weigh in on the staggering legal ramifications of this
>> decision. But I am a priest, a practical theologian, and the theology
>> in this case is just plain bad. Obscenely so, and that, I can comment
>> on.
>>
>> Very simply, the owners of Hobby Lobby (and other corporations)
>> argued that their religion (Christianity) did not allow for abortion,
>> and that birth control was a form of abortion. On those grounds they
>> refused to cover the cost of birth control (and plan B
>> contraceptives, which are still contraceptives, not abortion) for
>> their company sponsored health insurance.
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> For companies with a lot of young female employees, birth control pills
> are likely one of the most commonly prescribed medications. Knock out
> that single most widely used prescription and the the cost to the
> insurer drops significantly. That should save the company a bundle in
> its benefits package. Dare we suggest that the real motive is the money.
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>> The Bible simply doesn't address birth control, it simply isn't
>> interested. Sadly the Church has been obsessed with birth control,
>> for all the wrong reasons, for generations.
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> The god of the fundies had a more radical approach to birth control. He
> set had things like floods, plagues and pestilence.
>
I wonder what fundamentalists do when they are young. Statistics seem to
show that Catholics use birth control at about the same rate as the
general population. Are bishops deaf, dumb and stupid as well as venal?

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Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

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