From the
US Conference of Catholic Bishops:
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) sharply criticized a new HHS “preventive services” mandate requiring private health plans to cover female surgical sterilization and all drugs and devices approved by the FDA as contraceptives, including drugs which can attack a developing unborn child before and after implantation in the mother’s womb.
“Although this new rule gives the agency the discretion to authorize a ‘religious’ exemption, it is so narrow as to exclude most Catholic social service agencies and healthcare providers,” said Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston and chairman of the USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities.
Didn't we know this was coming? And swiftly, because the statement was probably written even before the formal announcement of the federal mandate for health insurance programs to offer
no co-pay coverage for birth control.
Dear Bishops:
I sharply criticize you for not minding your own business and tending to your own flock. Is it because your flock, for the most part, don't follow your out-of-touch rules on birth control that you seek to control the lives of those of us outside the fold? Well, stop it! We're sick and tired of your interference in our lives. MYOB!
Thanks to whiteycat for the link.
Hooray! My sentiments exactly!
ReplyDeleteThanks for being so succinct and to the point.
Hi Chris. I was in a bad mood this morning. Can you tell?
ReplyDeleteGood to have you back kicking up the dust, dear Mimi!
ReplyDeleteTobias, thanks. You really shouldn't encourage me in my bad moods, you know. ;-)
ReplyDelete@Mimi: I understand completely. I'm always in a bad mood when thinking about the bishops of the RC Church. Your thoughts are right on target, so your mood doesn't matter, though! Keep it up!
ReplyDelete"MYOB!"
ReplyDeleteMimi, do you honestly think that that the "business" of a bishop should be confined to his own flock? Do you feel that way about your own bishops?
Seems to me there's a big difference between "I disagree" and "Mind your own business." There are certainly plenty of people who feel that matters of war, poverty, and social injustice are no more the "business" of bishops than sexual ethics. I'm sure you wouldn't agree that, in those other areas, a bishop should just take care of his own.
Chris, my anger was roused first by the Democrats caving in to Tea Party demands to get the debt ceiling raised. And then come the RCC busybodies.
ReplyDeleteRick, I am sick of the Roman Catholic Church prying into the sex lives of folks not in their flock. I painted with a broad brush for sure, but the bishops make themselves less credible on any subject by their obsession with sex and their unwanted intrusion into the sex lives of people. Besides, when did the RCC become expert on what's proper and improper sexual behavior? Give me a break.
To ANY person whose religious belief would interfere w/ my CIVIL rights (including, but not limited to, whom I marry and what I do w/ my own reproductive organs): MYOB!!! >:-0
ReplyDeleteThen there's this: a ***child protection official*** for the Catholic Church [in the UK] has been caught with 4,000 pictures of child porn
JCF, I saw the article.
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