THEY HID PEDOPHILES, so a lawsuit backed by the Council of U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, joined by over three dozen Catholic men’s clubs, was guaranteed.
This very defensive statement from Notre Dame is fitting.
Let me say very clearly what this lawsuit is not about: it is not about preventing women from having access to contraception, nor even about preventing the Government from providing such services. Many of our faculty, staff and students — both Catholic and non-Catholic — have made conscientious decisions to use contraceptives. As we assert the right to follow our conscience, we respect their right to follow theirs. And we believe that, if the Government wishes to provide such services, means are available that do not compel religious organizations to serve as its agents. We do not seek to impose our religious beliefs on others; we simply ask that the Government not impose its values on the University when those values conflict with our religious teachings. We have engaged in conversations to find a resolution that respects the consciences of all and we will continue to do so.
That’s the second paragraph. The first paragraph describes the products as “abortion-inducing drugs, contraceptives and sterilization procedures which are contrary to Catholic teaching.”
The majority of women pay absolutely no attention to the hopelessly misogynistic and backward Catholic male hierarchy, who also just happen to believe that women shouldn’t have a direct line to God. You see, that’s the province of the people with penises.
That these men continue to believe that contraception is wrong, hidden behind “contrary to Catholic teaching,” is just one of the reasons our country and developing nations can’t cap the reality of women having to bear children they can’t afford to raise, either emotionally or financially.
Whenever anyone making an argument begins by telling you what something is not about you can bet that’s exactly what it is about.
The Catholic Church is about protecting itself and the fraternity under the guise of “conscience,” as their irrelevancy mounts. Faith adhering women of certain generations may always be attached to the ceremony and beauty of church images, to which I can certainly relate, but our spirituality is something separate and unbound. What can be assured is that modernity is setting women free of corrupt religious institutions that deny spiritual power and leadership posts based on gender.
Fundamentalism is antithetical to spiritual excavation, the most enlightened living beyond the doctrines and dictates of men.
Well said.
I may be wrong but I think most Catholics of my generation relate to it in a cultural way as much or more as they do moral guidance. They have a shared experience because of their Catholic education and upbringing that binds them. In St. Louis, a very Catholic community, families in my generation have one two or three kids tops. In fact I have several friends who were the oldest of large Catholic familes who have chosen not to have children at all. They feel like they have already done enough child rearing.
Just another example why religion sucks. First thing that should happen is they should loose their tax exempt status. Religion in this country has just become another business, so we should treat them just like any other business. Let them sell their wares like everybody else.
…and pay property taxes on all the land they own and help the community that shelters them.
I’m amused that someone named angels81 thinks religion sucks.
Got nothing to do with angels like you think. Has to do with a very large family I belong to.
Frankly if these women are dense enough to be part of this superstition based mumbo jumbo they have no credibility when complaining they get treated like feces by the patriarchy/PEDOPHILE support network.
If you want to help people and do good works just help people and do good works….lose the cult.
Why any progressives would belong to an organization that is this out of touch with their values is beyond me, particularly since religion is supposed to be such a wonderful guide to morality that those of us who don’t believe in it must surely be “lost”.
No offense meant, angels81, it just reads as a good sight gag, that’s all
No offense taken. Its all in good fun.
Angels, what is your avatar from?