Edwynn
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What is your point here, Lucy?
Aside from this confusion;
"The chaste all-male club known as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has criticized the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for adopting a rule requiring health plans eliminate copays for contraception and other important women’s health services. The HHS decision, issued in August, adopts the recommendation of a panel of medical experts convened by the prestigious Institute of Medicine."
So, why would the Bishops protest against what, as the above article explains, be in fact concurring with their aims? "Eliminate copays for contraception ... " etc.
"Under the proposed law, a Christian Scientist organization could refuse to cover any medical procedure other than Christian prayer, and an Orthodox Jewish organization might refuse to cover organ transplants. But the real danger from the proposed law comes from extending “conscience” protections to Catholic hospitals, which treat one-sixth of all patients in the United States, millions of whom are not Catholic, or otherwise do not share the bishops’ extreme views."
Right. The Christian Scientists and Orthodox Jews doing the same thing are not too troublesome for you then, but Catholics (a quite small proportion of them) are what send you up the wall here. "The real danger." Here's the latest flash; much more than 1/6 of Catholics tell these small contingent of Bishops to shove it up their arse, on a weekly basis, and many nuns and priests out there for the bake sale to fund the effort.
I could refer to the good Brothers and Sisters doing the gnarliest and nastiest work in areas of the world (lots of women's health and contraception and AIDS help, but shhh ... ) following the bombing and arms imports from Western (Cheyney wasn't a Catholic) countries.
"As Freedman explains, one “belief” of Catholic hospitals is that doctors must stand idly by and allow a hemorrhaging pregnant woman to bleed as long as the fetus she is carrying shows any signs of life. In one particularly cruel instance described by a perinatologist, an urban northeastern Catholic hospital demanded that doctors do nothing to terminate the non-viable pregnancy of a woman who was septic, running a 106-degree fever, and bleeding out of her eyeballs because a fetal heartbeat could still be heard."
That is as much a "belief" of Catholic hospitals as mule-drawn wagons are a belief of car mechanics, both Freedman's and your agendas notwithstanding. Otherwise, we'd be seeing both bloody infants and bloody moms hastened to the dumpster by the wagon load.
If you are even attempting to claim that the utter nonsense of some few Bishops (or the idiot Pope, that nobody listens to) comes anywhere close to the harm done to the world by Democrats and Republicans, you are wide of the mark here.
PS
Catholic and Baptist and Methodist, etc. and Jewish and Muslim and Hindu et al. social organizations are working overtime because of the politicians, not the other way around. The Gingrich/Fallwell/Bachman types' thievery of religion for their own purpose is what it is. Politicians doing what they do best. And yes, Fallwell's great scam was deluding people into thinking he was a "preacher" when he was in fact a non-elected politician from day one.
< Message edited by Edwynn -- 10/1/2011 8:25:32 AM >
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