I never in a mil­lion years thought this blog would see a post about birth con­trol and employ­ers but here goes…

The imbroglio rag­ing on over the deci­sion to require Catholic hos­pi­tals and uni­ver­si­ties to pro­vide con­tra­cep­tion in employee health plans is itself nefar­i­ous at best. These insti­tu­tions are sec­u­lar in their oper­a­tions and do not hire based on accep­tance of Church doc­trine or inscrip­tion in or sub­scrip­tion to the Catholic — or even Chris­t­ian faiths. ‘What reli­gion are you?” isn’t a ques­tion on the employ­ment appli­ca­tion.. as of course it shouldn’t be.

If Catholics are 100% true adher­ents then there won’t be any scripts writ­ten, agnosco? Or is the fear that if health­care insur­ance cov­ers birth con­trol, all of a sud­den good Catholics employed in sec­u­lar but affil­i­ated insti­tu­tions who have never used it will all of a sud­den hike phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal demand for the pill? Is the Catholic Church so naive as to think that the good and faith­ful would fall for that? How about giv­ing  the 25% of Catholic women who fol­low Church teach­ings on pro­cre­ation some credit for God’s sake..

Actual houses of wor­ship that are employ­ers like churches, synagogues, etc., still have reprieve. Yet, I’m will­ing to bet a lot that where there is a rec­tory sec­re­tary that doesn’t have a fam­ily the size of the Dug­gars — there is birth con­trol going on in one form or another or infer­til­ity. And if you put Mrs. Dug­gar — a fun­da­men­tal­ist Chris­t­ian, not Catholic, in front of a packet of Ortho Novum, she would turn her nose up at it, start recit­ing scrip­ture and recount how God sent her a mis­car­riage because she had dab­bled with it in her younger years — and it would be her right to do so.

This is not about reli­gious free­dom, this is about dom­i­nance and papal piss­ing on a fire hydrant — the reli­gious have the free­dom to be celi­bate, abstain accord­ing to their guid­ing doc­trine and prin­ci­ples and bear all the fruit their their bod­ies can pro­duce. They have the free­dom to walk right past con­doms in the mini-mart and  no pres­sure or com­pul­sion what­so­ever to use any form of birth con­trol. Let this be between them and the confessional…

Let it not be between health­care providers and employ­ers and for Pete’s sake let’s call a spade a spade. This is a plot to dethrone the President…

Employ­ers don’t give any­thing away for free includ­ing 100% employer paid health­care ben­e­fits. Ben­e­fits are part a a total com­pen­sa­tion pack­age that the employee earns while toil­ing away to keep them in the black. They should have the right to spend / use what they earn as they see fit.

P.S. The whole thing about no birth con­trol and hav­ing fam­i­lies the size of small herds is noth­ing but man’s out dated way of try­ing to  keep women sub­ju­gated. — most men don’t even believe this anymore.

• profile.yahoo.com/3JWGIXQUP4FMKVFDSCB23ECIZU Shirley

  I am glad I don’t rely on the HR blogs for my religous teach­ings.  First let me say that I am not a catholic and couldn’t care less about  the con­tra­cep­tion issue.  What I do care about is the over reach of this admin­is­tra­tion.   Of course the Catholic church is get­ting a lit­tle of what they deserve.  There was a say­ing where I grew up that if you lay down with dogs you get fleas.  That is what hap­pened to the Catholic church.  The bish­ops got in bed (no pun intended) with the left on Oba­macare.  They should have real­ized that when the gov­ern­ment cre­ates a right (in this case the right to health care) the gov­ern­ment can also tell you how to exer­cise that right.   They learned this les­son the hard way. 

  By the way you don’t dethrone a pres­i­dent — although he behaves as if he is a king ulti­mately he will have to answer to the electorate  

• Stephen Albert

  Amen! This is more about attempt­ing to con­trol behav­ior and pro­mot­ing socially con­ser­v­a­tive polit­i­cal can­di­dates than it is any­thing else.  Don’t like birth con­trol?  Don’t like “arti­fi­cial” con­tra­cep­tion?  Then don’t freak’n prac­tice it!  

  By the logic of the Catholic Church, my employer pro­vid­ing a sec­tion for smok­ers out­side the build­ing (which my employer pays to main­tain) is the same as my employer requir­ing peo­ple to smoke.  Such hog­wash!- Steve Albert

• karlaporter.com/ Karla Porter

  Stephen — That’s a very inter­est­ing anal­ogy, the ‘what’s good for the goose is good for the gan­der’ policy.

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