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Kaili Joy Gray
Don’t you just love the smell of victory in the morning?
This week, the Obama administration announced that yes, it will be implementing the rule it announced last month requiring health insurance providers to cover birth control without co-pays. To allay the “moral” concerns of the criminal enterprise that has for decades been covering up the rape and molestation of children—aka, the Catholic Church—the administration revised the rule to include a further exemption for religious-affiliated organizations so that if the idea of their employees using contraception (as most of them do) gives them a sad, they can force insurance companies to pick up the cost, thereby protecting the “religious liberty” of the Church to be very, very sad that despite its teachings about the “intrinsically evil” practice of birth control, just about all sexually active Catholic women use it.
Although the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops initially responded to the revised rule by saying it was “a first step in the right direction,” later in the day—coincidentally, as news spread that “at least 8,000 kids were sexually abused by over 100 priests and other offenders in the Milwaukee Catholic Diocese”—the bishops issued a new statement, calling the decision cause for “grave moral concern,” and launched a campaign urging Catholics to write to Congress and demand passage of the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act (H.R. 1179, S. 1467). Pay no attention to the thousands of abused children! Make women stop using birth control, since they won’t listen to us when we tell them!
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