Leave it to Republicans to once again create a problem where no problem exists. As the economy improves, and unemployment falls to 8.3%, suddenly jobs and the economy are taking a back seat to a renewed culture war. We have Rick Santorum pulling out the guillotine, demonizing the President like some kind of secular tyrant crying "let them eat cake!" The Republicans are masters at seizing on these kind of controversies and exploding them out proportion. In this case, turning access to contraception and birth control for women in institutions that serve the "Secular Public Good", under the protection of religious affiliation. Republicans have attacked the Presidents religious authenticity from day one. In March of 2010, A poll of Republicans told us this.
67% Think President Obama is a Socialist.
57% Think President Obama is Muslim.
45% Think President Obama was not born in this country.
38% Think President Obama "is doing many of the things Hitler did."
24% Think President Obama may be the Anti Christ.
THE ANTI-CHRIST???!!! Really??!! These are the same people calling this mandate an attack on religious freedom. Is Rick Santorum running for President or for Pope?! When a women in his audience not long ago called the President a Muslim, did Mr. Good Catholic Boy Santorum correct the woman? Of course not! Because it doesn't play to the Republican narrative that America is THEIR country, and THEIR country is Christian! Again, these are the same people who brought us the "War on Christmas" and whatever other non-sense they can get to resonate with all the radical right wing religious fanatics like Rick Santorum.
This mandate is NOT an attack on religious freedom. It's a labor issue, not a religious one. It doesn't effect a single church in this country, but Republicans would have you think Obama is coming for your Bible's. If you are a school, a hospital, or social services provider that operates in the real world, and the real world is SECULAR, than you are no different than anybody else. All these institutions are screaming religious infringement, while taking federal money in the form of Medicare and Medicaid, or education funding, or social welfare assistance. Why isn't anybody screaming about that? Churches in this country are making Billions of dollars in this country and don't pay one thin dime of it in taxes. The Catholic church alone could balance the national debt overnight! They are the biggest abusers of the avoiding paying taxes in this country, because they can hide behind the pillar of Religious Freedom. I for one am tired of driving by multi-million dollar mega church complexes all over the city of Atlanta, only to come home and listen to them bitch about providing birth control for women, who have just as much right to have these services, as anyone who works anywhere else. If the religious entities in this country want to operate "Secular Public Services" and avoid these kind of mandates then they need to start paying taxes just like everybody else, PERIOD. You STILL can't have it both ways.
67% Think President Obama is a Socialist.
57% Think President Obama is Muslim.
45% Think President Obama was not born in this country.
38% Think President Obama "is doing many of the things Hitler did."
24% Think President Obama may be the Anti Christ.
THE ANTI-CHRIST???!!! Really??!! These are the same people calling this mandate an attack on religious freedom. Is Rick Santorum running for President or for Pope?! When a women in his audience not long ago called the President a Muslim, did Mr. Good Catholic Boy Santorum correct the woman? Of course not! Because it doesn't play to the Republican narrative that America is THEIR country, and THEIR country is Christian! Again, these are the same people who brought us the "War on Christmas" and whatever other non-sense they can get to resonate with all the radical right wing religious fanatics like Rick Santorum.
This mandate is NOT an attack on religious freedom. It's a labor issue, not a religious one. It doesn't effect a single church in this country, but Republicans would have you think Obama is coming for your Bible's. If you are a school, a hospital, or social services provider that operates in the real world, and the real world is SECULAR, than you are no different than anybody else. All these institutions are screaming religious infringement, while taking federal money in the form of Medicare and Medicaid, or education funding, or social welfare assistance. Why isn't anybody screaming about that? Churches in this country are making Billions of dollars in this country and don't pay one thin dime of it in taxes. The Catholic church alone could balance the national debt overnight! They are the biggest abusers of the avoiding paying taxes in this country, because they can hide behind the pillar of Religious Freedom. I for one am tired of driving by multi-million dollar mega church complexes all over the city of Atlanta, only to come home and listen to them bitch about providing birth control for women, who have just as much right to have these services, as anyone who works anywhere else. If the religious entities in this country want to operate "Secular Public Services" and avoid these kind of mandates then they need to start paying taxes just like everybody else, PERIOD. You STILL can't have it both ways.
Brilliant. Could not have said it better myself
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