Americans Deserve Political Freedom from the Catholic Church

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We have Freedom of Speech in the Constitution. Please, let's also institute Freedom From Speech by Jamie.

junior of DC 9:05AM February 17, 2012

Jamie... and the rest of the Catholic bashers - FYI
You and all the rest of Western Civilization owe your existence to the Catholic Church. For nearly a 1000 years the Church battled militant Islam - the blood of hundreds of thousands of Catholic Knights and men at arms was spilled from North Africa to Vienna, and from Constantinople to the English Channel.
Finally, in the 16th Century, the Muslims were mauled and decimated at Rhodes (Nothing has ever been lost so well as Rhodes.), defeated at Lepanto and Malta and driven back from the Gates of Vienna. Western Civilization was saved from the terror of Sharia and the scimitar - a world where women are enslaved and infidels (non-believers) are murdered where they stand.
Bottom line... If it wasn't for the Rock of St. Peter - the Catholic Church - none of you would have been around to bash it. Your ancestors would have been slaughtered or turned into slaves of Islam.
The Arab Spring may well grow - enveloping the world in darkness - and now the Church hasn't the strength the stop them and the West has lost its will.
Tolerance for the intolerable is not a virtue.
You might try reading a book.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 8:37PM February 14, 2012

I have given this more thought and I have the solution. Insurance companies are for profit. They must charge in line with what they pay for. We do not want the government telling private business what they must provide for free, after all if our Economic Idiot in Chief has the power to order private companies to work for free, if it was for the good of society wouldn’t that give him the right to order this website and the magazine to run ads for free. What would that do to your pay Jamie? The solution, since Planned Parenthood is a nonprofit is to have Planned Parenthood give contraception and abortions for free. They want more access, why shouldn’t they be the ones to provide it, I mean after all they are not money hungry like the evil insurance companies, so they should be happy to do it. Unless, they are hypocrites and believe the usual liberal thought of yes it’s my right, but somebody else is supposed to pay for it. Really, why is it any less right for Planned Parenthood to provide the services for free, than for insurance companies?

kewaal of GA 8:19PM February 14, 2012

Once again, the real issue is what the government is allowed to force us to do. I get a kick out of you giving the history of birth control and you claiming we need political freedom from the Catholic Church, when what we need is political freedom from this useless economic idiot POS in the White House. I am not Catholic, and I disagree with almost everything in the way they worship. (I am Christian, but not Catholic). However I totally agree that the Catholic Church should not have to pay for something they do not want to. The Catholic Church has not steped on anyone’s rights. No one is forced to join the Catholic Church, they have not stopped anyone from receiving birth control, but according to the left everyone has a right for other people to pay for their needs and wants. I really enjoyed your remark “The American bishops think they dictate policy to all Americans, even in the most private compartments of our lives.” What the hell do you think Obama has been trying to do ever since his spokes person announced they “will be ready to rule from day 1”? That is the real problem, and our ruler in chief wants a society where no one wipes their a** unless he tells them what eco friendly toilet paper to do it with. And we have a left leaning press that seems to be in agreement with him.

kewaal of GA 11:10AM February 14, 2012

Hi Jamie,
It was nice chatting with you last night at Rocklands. The power of the church certainly upsets me as well. And same sex marriage will certainly not be sanctioned by the church until they get over their obsession with birth control. In their mind, every sex act must have the potential to result in a pregnancy. Since that is not possible in a same sex relationship, they can never sanction it. Their concern (and hang-up) is purely about sex and not love unless of course it involves altar boys and priests. They don’t seem to care about that until it affects their bottom line. On the plus side, I think the whole affair does benefit President Obama as it keeps the far right talking about social issues which are very far outside the mainstream and makes them look ridiculous.
Cheers, Monika

Monika Wells of DC 10:45AM February 14, 2012

Rev. Ray Dubuque of CT.
Your statement: "Rev. R. D., proud to be an EX-priest and EX-Catholic."
When I was younger, I was fired from a veteranarian clinic (unjustifybly, I believe, to this day) and I told countless people of what a pig sty excuse of an animal clinic that was where I used to work. Regrettably now, of course, but at the time, I was angry.
....makes me wonder if you got caught with the nun!?!

J.D. Powers of FL 8:48AM February 14, 2012

"Americans Deserve Political Freedom from the Catholic Church"
Well, that figures, Jamie Stiehm....
You and Obama blame everything on everyone else, and, you both blame the Catholic Church on THIS one too
....when in reality, the reverse is true!
Patterns of thinking, folks, are much like why the owners look like their dogs!!

Doyle H. of CA 4:03AM February 14, 2012

Suzy Quarerra - I see this scientific, or unscientific poll (as it were) presents the growing "no's" as the overwheming winner thus far...
Does Obama's compromise on contraceptive coverage go far enough?
A.22.53% Yes
B.77.47% No
It certainly spells disaster for Obama, huh? : )

Kenny M. of LA 3:26AM February 14, 2012

Don't mess with the Catholic Church,
Galileo learned the hard way,
When from his scientific perch,
Earth moved around sun, he did say.
The Church ruled this was heresy,
Against the Holy Scripture's words.
And so, for being so naughty,
Galileo was for the birds,
And caged for life in house arrest.
The Pope, who once had been his pal,
Was peeved that Galileo messed
The Word with truth and hurt morale.
Even today, for what it's worth,
The Pope meddles with what on Earth!

Ima Ryma of IL 3:03AM February 14, 2012