As a former catholic and current advocate for women's rights, I loved this piece by Annie Gaylor. The catholic church's bishops are pressuring the Obama administration to use the secular tools of government to enforce their religious beliefs on as many people as possible. They are calling it religious liberty, it is anything but that. What kind of society would let old men, decide how, where and when women could use birth control? No secular society can let this happen. The church is overstepping its bounds and should lose its tax exempt status over this. Read Ms. Gaylor's piece, its well done.
From
Annie Laurie Gaylor
Co-President
Freedom From Religion Foundation
Dear 'Liberal' Catholic:
It’s time to quit the Roman Catholic Church.
It's your moment of truth. Will it be reproductive freedom, or back to the Dark Ages? Do you choose women and their rights, or Bishops and their wrongs? Whose side are you on, anyway?
It is time to make known your dissent from the Catholic Church, in light of the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops’ ruthless campaign endangering the right to contraception. If you're part of the Catholic Church, you're part of the problem.
Why are you propping up the pillars of a tyrannical and autocratic, woman-hating, sex-perverting, antediluvian Old Boys Club? Why are you aiding and abetting a church that has repeatedly and publicly announced a crusade to ban contraception, abortion and sterilization, and to deny the right of all women everywhere, Catholic or not, to decide whether and when to become mothers? When it comes to reproductive freedom, the Roman Catholic Church is Public Enemy Number One. Think of the acute misery, poverty, needless suffering, unwanted pregnancies, social evils and deaths that can be laid directly at the door of the Church's antiquated doctrine that birth control is a sin and must be outlawed.....
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Annie Laurie Gaylor Co-President Freedom From Religion Foundation |
From
Annie Laurie Gaylor
Co-President
Freedom From Religion Foundation
Dear 'Liberal' Catholic:
It’s time to quit the Roman Catholic Church.
It's your moment of truth. Will it be reproductive freedom, or back to the Dark Ages? Do you choose women and their rights, or Bishops and their wrongs? Whose side are you on, anyway?
It is time to make known your dissent from the Catholic Church, in light of the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops’ ruthless campaign endangering the right to contraception. If you're part of the Catholic Church, you're part of the problem.
Why are you propping up the pillars of a tyrannical and autocratic, woman-hating, sex-perverting, antediluvian Old Boys Club? Why are you aiding and abetting a church that has repeatedly and publicly announced a crusade to ban contraception, abortion and sterilization, and to deny the right of all women everywhere, Catholic or not, to decide whether and when to become mothers? When it comes to reproductive freedom, the Roman Catholic Church is Public Enemy Number One. Think of the acute misery, poverty, needless suffering, unwanted pregnancies, social evils and deaths that can be laid directly at the door of the Church's antiquated doctrine that birth control is a sin and must be outlawed.....
The rest of the article here
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