EXACTLY RIGHT! They are only upset because Ovomit is TARGETING THEM!

The Cardinal is a representative for about 33% of the US population. Atheists make up only about 2%. That’s why you don’t matter.

I didn’t vote for Obama and I didn’t elect the Kardashians, but we always hear about them! Why not hear about someone who represents my views and the views of tens of millions of Catholics in the U.S.?

Atheist: you do not have a dog in this fight. And dog spelled backwards is

While you don’t have to say I’m right, the best argument you can hope to have is to say that atheists are, at the very least, essential. It is those who have challenged blind faith and dogma that push society forward.

As a quick example, remember that if the church had its way, the Earth would still be the center of the universe. And not understanding the physics of planetary science means no satellites. So do a little experiment (that’s when you try different things and see which one works best, not let someone else tell you what you should feel is best), make your life like it would have been if it was dictated wholly by the church with respect to this one example, planetary science. Unplug your cable and your phone, turn off your cell phone and any GPS you may be using in your car. Disconnect your internet, because even if it is a wired system now, the development of the early internet linked distant sites across the US via satellite communications. Try that for a few days. See how that goes.

If you want to try another one, stop taking any medication that was developed in the last 30 years. Basic antibiotics and painkillers are fine, so is insulin, but new classes of biologic medicines are produced with the help of genetics, directly a result of my personal hero Charles Darwin and his brave new ideas that, at the time, challenged the very roots of your faith. So imagine the world without most vaccines, watching your family members die of illnesses that could have been stopped by opposite-of-the-church thinking. Tell cancer patients that their new therapies are being forgotten in lieu of a more faith-based approach to curing disease. Tell many patients with a myriad of autoimmune diseases that their monoclonal antibody therapy is being purged from public knowledge, and they can go back to, at best, suffering from intense joint pain, and at worst, dying.

Oh, and you can also tell all the families of victims of violent crimes whose attacker was convicted with DNA evidence that because of you righteous and unchanging faith, said perpetrator will now be released back onto the street.

All of these things have happened despite what you claim your god (of the margins) would have wanted. That sounds like a kind god to me, doesn’t it. But let us, for a moment, consider you are correct. There is a god and he/she/it/black/white/asian/aispanic/allah/jesus/zeus/FSM (which one?) has a grand design. Again, at the very least, you have to concede that the less faithful are part of this design. Can you deny this? Guess not. And we aren’t here just to challenge your faith and make it stronger, although I do think your vanity is well deserved. No, we are here to do the things the faithful can’t do. We are the people who challenge current ideas, make breakthroughs, and move society forward, all of us must be a part of that design. If we assume you’re correct in your worldview, then when you are challenging the faithless and calling them incorrect, you are challenging the very design that your god has established. Go Google “heresy”. Oh wait, you can’t, you’ve unplugged your godless internet. Hope you still own a dictionary.

LOL, the millions you are talking about are Hispanics…you know, the ones you want to deport…

But I guess they serve your ulterior motives, don’t they!

Socialism is an economic system, communism is a form of government. You only think it is evil because you live in a Western Democratic government, with a Capitalist economic system. Socialism or communism is not inherently evil. Socialism is about equality for all, and communism is an effective and efficient form of government, tainted only by the human nature of greed. Open you mind, and go back to school.

Thank you for having a basic knowledge of the concept of force and the government monopoly on force. We are watching the Republic slip out of our grasp. It is all going down and we have Mitt Romney to save us? …. right…

I am preparing for total collapse of this country, morally, socially , financially and economically. I hope you and your family are too…
Exactly, whats the difference? No matter who wins this primary we will be stuck with somebody who does not care about the constitution and our country is going to continue its rapid decline into the ash heap of history.

All you can do is prepare yourself for the decline of America and pray to God it doesn’t happen. I am prepared. and I hope you are too how much of this list do you currently have?
http://www.postapocalypticsurvival.com/2012/01/post-apocalyptic-survival-gear-list.html

They forgot to consult the 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum:
“At the present day many there are who, like the heathen of old, seek to blame and condemn the Church for such eminent charity. They would substitute in its stead a system of relief organized by the State. But no human expedients will ever make up for the devotedness and self sacrifice of Christian charity. Charity, as a virtue, pertains to the Church; for virtue it is not, unless it be drawn from the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ; and whosoever turns his back on the Church cannot be near to Christ.”

Way more important to keep the power out of the hands of the likes of you sir.I sincerely hope the Government keeps an eye on you and all your affairs.

because POTUS says so? logic has nothing to do with any of this. killing babies is okay. homosexual lifestyle is okay. teaching little kids about sex is okay. letting girls get abortions without parents’ knowledge is okay. teaching morality, well that is not okay. that’s imposing and is simply not going to be allowed. people must be free to do evil without question. hey, sounds like satan is running the show!

Neither is okay – the conscience protection act would allow this opt-out for anyone whose conscience (i.e., belief system/religion) is offended by this mandate.

Gee, maybe a small thing called the Bill of Rights, which has special protections for the exercise of religion.

You *do* know that religions which specifically forbid the purchase of insurance already get an opt out, don’t you?

Or are we going to force Mohammedans, the Amish, and the Christian Scientists into 0bamacare, just so they can be force to buy everyone else’s abortions?

please F yourself you smug schmuck

Is that all you lame idiots can come up with? You libs are one trick ponies, broken records, going over the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over. Never once looking at the actual ISSUE BEING DISCUSSED. Thus rendering your comment for what it is: liberal claptrap. Why don’t you stick to the topic instead of doing what liberals do best: attempt to re-direct the conversation so as to not address the actual issue. It’s not like we don’t see right through the tactic. We should. You dopes sure use it enough.

Then catholic institutions should not hire any non catholics.

damn strait…I never once asked for bacon at Yeshiva…Why would Obama have a clue, he is not American.. Study is father, put yourself in his mothers shoes in 1962. they had to hate America. She left America. Obama looks at us from the outside in. He will never be American. More like a self obsessed African..

Maria before you and any other FAUX NEWS brainwashed disciples call others idiots get your facts correct. This is not a church and state issue. And POTUS is a Constitutional law scholar. Try responding to facts instead of reacting with MURDOCH RULES

hahahaha…that’s about Bush right? LOL that was really funny!

Or you…..

I suspect though that even if you did bother to read it you wouldn’t understand it. The verses are intentionally cryptic..meaning you have to think about what they mean. So yeah..

I despise people like you..not because I’m religious but because you represent a crowd of ill educated asinine morons who are Cowards.

There’s HAL dropping acid and posting at the same time. Doesn’t make for very coherent arguments…does it?

Amen to that.

Marriage can be a religious and legal union, gay marriage is not recognized by the Church there for it is not a religious union. You think that same-sex marriage cheapens what a religious union is, but you fail to understand that the Church only recognizes marriage if 1) a person has never been married. 2) the marriage was nullified by the Church. 3) a person’s spouse has past away. Having a legal union, has no bearing what-so-ever on a religious union.
What cheapens marriage, are all those people who get married and get divorced within 3 months, or all those people who cheat on their marriage. .

so, Ed, why does the Govt. have a right to interfere with religion

I don’t don’t understand why any employer should pay for someone elses birth control. The resposibiltiy for birth control lies with the person… not an employer or even the Govt. Does this new mandate also cover condoms or vasectomies for men? People, people,… please take responsibility for yourselves… quite being a generation of entitlement.

sorry Nathan, the first way isn’t cheaper…. the employer is stuck with paying more money to cover someone elses birth control
The employee has the right to spend their money in whatever manner they choose… (ie.. birth control) The church does not tell people how to spend their own money… and the govt. should not require someone else to pay for your own birth control

It’s not really a subtle moral distinction, but we don’t expect liberals to really understand moral questions. So let’s go through this S L O W L Y.

It’s the same degree of moral separation as an employer issuing you a bomb, and you going out and buying or assembling a bomb on your own. One of these activities implicitly sanctions a potentially life threatening behavior, the other is one for which you assume complete responsibility, because your paycheck could just as easily have gone to buying bomb-defusing equipment, or contributions to the widows and orphans fund for the police department.

See how this works?

The $50 contributed by an employer for contraception and abortion, if left in your paycheck instead, could easily go to sending money to anti-abortion causes, or just having fun with your family. Unlike the $50 put into the abortion premium in the health care plan, the money DOESN’T HAVE TO BUY ABORTIONS.

It really isn’t complicated when you just think about right vs. wrong occasionally, instead of simply spouting left-wing sound bites.

No one is interfering. Go ahead and abort all your kids! There will be fewer left-wing morons in the next generation. But please don’t ask me to pay for it. I’m not interested in paying for any of your health care, any more than I’m interested in buying you new shoes or a new pick up truck. Live and let live, I say! I don’t want anything to do with your or any society you live in. Leave me the f*ck alone.

you are missing the point cygon…….

“That should free up a lot of jobs for their own flock.”
Which Obama would really get off on, then he could sue them all for discrimination.
The thing that bugs me most is that BC is considered a ‘health’ issue.
It’s not a health issue, it’s a way to have sex with no cares in 99% of the cases where a women chooses to take the pill, and it’s killing a living fetus/child when it comes to abortion.
In some extreme cases, abortion may be neccessary, but again, 99% of abortions are because an irresponsible adult didn’t want a child.
There is no honesty in this discussion of birth control.

We also know that the church has pedophiles that haven’t been prosecuted by the law. They are not to be trusted!!!

That is for sure with Obama. But at the same time, Karma is a real thing. Maybe now the church knows what it is like to entrust someone with someothing imprtant, like our children, only to be lied to.