Don't get all testerical, Fef.
Santorum does. “Many of the Christian faith have said … contraception is O.K.,” his Frothiness said last fall. “It’s not O.K. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.” With some pride, Santorum noted that “no president has talked about” the evils of birth control. He says "it harms women and society".
Those Personhood nutters want to ban it...and they're getting on state ballots. The fact that Mississippi, the most conservative state in the Union, defeated their measure should tell them something, but...they'll just keep wasting a ton of money trying to legislate their idea of morality.
http://personhoodcolorado.com...
This is all an attempt to control women. It always has been, and always will be.
Who Wants to Deny Woman's Access to Contraceptives?
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The Democrats have launched a coordinated and contrived campaign to create a hysteria that woman may lose access to contraceptives. They've done this to help elect Barack Obama in 2012 election.
Who believes this non-sense? Who wants to take away the access to contraceptives? Nobody.
The Catholic Church barely talks about contraception -- either from the pulpit or in media. The Catholic Church today represents many liberal, anti-war, anti-death penalty priests and parishioners. The Pope has reversed centuries-old opposition to birth control. Pope Benedict XVI said prostitutes can use condoms in 2010, "There can be single justified cases, for example when a prostitute uses a condom, and this can be the first step toward a moralization, a first act of responsibility in developing anew an awareness of the fact that not everything is permissible and that we cannot do everything we want."
The Democratic National Committee wants to create a controversy out of thin air. The press, in coordination with the DNC, has intensely questioned the religious and leading Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum about contraceptives. Then the press misquoted and misrepresented their positions. Neither Romney (a Massachusetts moderate who supported abortion rights) and Rick Santorum (a Catholic) do not want to make contraceptives illegal.
Let me repeat it: not a single Republican or Democrat or Catholic leader wants to make contraception illegal. If you know of any, please post it along with the explicit quote or proposed legislation.
Some people who don't understand the states rights issues granted by the Constitution won't understand Rick Santorum's position on allowing states to make their own rules. That differs from advocating legislation to make contraceptives illegal. Any argument over that relies on confusion or willful distortion to suit one's political agenda.
The "feminists" want to elect Barack Obama, who just upset the Catholics by denying the Church its First Amendment rights. Obama took a big hit for this in the polls and media, so the Left wants to turn that argument around. They want to flip the Church's opposition to mandatory contraceptives into a fake premise that the Church and Republicans want to deny contraceptives. Only a coordinated effort from the engineers inside the DNC can come up with such a convoluted and distorted scheme.
Who wants to ban contraceptives? Who wants to make contraceptives illegal?
Who believes this non-sense? Who wants to take away the access to contraceptives? Nobody.
The Catholic Church barely talks about contraception -- either from the pulpit or in media. The Catholic Church today represents many liberal, anti-war, anti-death penalty priests and parishioners. The Pope has reversed centuries-old opposition to birth control. Pope Benedict XVI said prostitutes can use condoms in 2010, "There can be single justified cases, for example when a prostitute uses a condom, and this can be the first step toward a moralization, a first act of responsibility in developing anew an awareness of the fact that not everything is permissible and that we cannot do everything we want."The Democratic National Committee wants to create a controversy out of thin air. The press, in coordination with the DNC, has intensely questioned the religious and leading Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum about contraceptives. Then the press misquoted and misrepresented their positions. Neither Romney (a Massachusetts moderate who supported abortion rights) and Rick Santorum (a Catholic) do not want to make contraceptives illegal.
Let me repeat it: not a single Republican or Democrat or Catholic leader wants to make contraception illegal. If you know of any, please post it along with the explicit quote or proposed legislation.Some people who don't understand the states rights issues granted by the Constitution won't understand Rick Santorum's position on allowing states to make their own rules. That differs from advocating legislation to make contraceptives illegal. Any argument over that relies on confusion or willful distortion to suit one's political agenda.
The "feminists" want to elect Barack Obama, who just upset the Catholics by denying the Church its First Amendment rights. Obama took a big hit for this in the polls and media, so the Left wants to turn that argument around. They want to flip the Church's opposition to mandatory contraceptives into a fake premise that the Church and Republicans want to deny contraceptives. Only a coordinated effort from the engineers inside the DNC can come up with such a convoluted and distorted scheme.
Who wants to ban contraceptives? Who wants to make contraceptives illegal?
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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/p...
"One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country.... Many of the Christian faith have said, well, that's okay, contraception is okay. It's not okay. It's a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be." —Rick Santorum, interview with CaffeinatedThoughts.com (October 2011)
No republican is telling you, you can't have contraception that is a liberal lie.
No one is trying to deny contraceptive....that's wrong. It's being forced down churches throats and that's against their religion and that's the whole arguement.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/p...
One issue was Santorum’s opposition to the Supreme Court’s 1965 ruling that invalidated a Connecticut law banning contraception. Santorum said he still feels that a state should be able to make such laws.
“The state has a right to do that, I have never questioned that the state has a right to do that. It is not a constitutional right, the state has the right to pass whatever statues they have."
He never ever stated on a government basis that he is for that. He has personal views as a Catholic but that's his personal choice isn't just like Obama personlly wants and support abortion.
As a matter of religious freedom the church thinks it, and not Obama, should decide what health care program they will provide.
But the alleged constitutional scholar thinks the first Amendment does not mean what is written on the parchment in the library of congress.
The question is not should we be forced to follow Catholic Dogma.
The question is "should the Catholic Church be forced to violate it's teachings?"
On that, and only that, issue I stand solidly with the Catholic Church and against Obama!
"One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country.... Many of the Christian faith have said, well, that's okay, contraception is okay. It's not okay. It's a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be." —Rick Santorum, interview with CaffeinatedThoughts.com (October 2011)
Neither does my mom, the owners of the grocery store down the street, or my wife's hairdresser.
Yay for prostitutes! Now, if he could only get around to "allowing" them for people dying by not using them...
Wrong. The Church itself created this controversy. 58% of Catholics approved of the contraception issue, even BEFORE the compromise. Now they want to raise the issue again, even though they are not mandated to offer it themselves any more? *sigh*
The Catholic church keeps shooting themselves in the foot. I, for one, am just fine with that. They more they continue to remain in opposition to not only medical science, but even their own constituency, the more they become even more irrelevant.
But this wasn't the much larger story, IMO...
Now instead of self insuring, the church must pay an insurance company to provide abortions.
Comparison, if you hire someone to kill your neighbor, you are just as guilty as the actual killer. If the church hires someone to perform abortions, they are still as guilty as the abortionist.
A great way to ensure more unwanted pregnancies and abortions, would be to ban contraception.
The Church is making a mockery of itself, and I am not sure this would be the best time for them to continue this trend...
Plus ANY and ALL Republicans supporting a "personhood" law (which includes ALL Republican presidential candidates), as these law will likely outlaw ALL forms of birth control. Republicans just do NOT care about the rights of women.