CATHOLIC RIGHT..EOUSNESS

There is a debate taking place today on Contraception in America. The Obama Administration has extended a law requiring employers to include contraception in women's health care coverage. This law is already in effect in 28 States and has been for some time now; without undue protest by any person or organization. Many of these states have an exemption for religious institution, some do not. The proposed extension by the Obama Administration honors the exemption, and give the religious institutions that were formerly left out the ability to stop providing contraception in their female employees health coverage. The Catholic Church has known about these existing regulations, and have not made an issue of them; despite their standing anti-contraception doctrine. This may or may not be due to the fact that 98% of Catholic women use or have used contraception, despite their churches doctrine. The Catholic Church have decided to make this a wedge issue during this election season. Conservatives, and opportunistic republican lawmakers have enthusiastically joined in. News pundits, catholic and non catholic have chimed in with their opinions, and have lit up the air waves with controversy. The Catholic Church believes that not only their religious institutions should be exempt, but also the many business ventures that they receive government funding for, such as schools, hospitals, etc. They define these businesses as charitable organizations. Conservative Presidential Primary Candidates have used this issue to lodge outrageous charges against President Obama, and to push their so called 'pro life' agenda forward. Among the new legislations proposed is a 'personhood amendment'. An amendment that would define life as being at conception, and would make abortions, and many forms of contraception a crime. President Obama in the spirit of cooperation if not in letter of law, have decided to adjust the legislation to require insurance carriers to pay for the contraception coverage mandated; relieving the church of possibly violating their "conscience?' The Catholic Church has not exercised good conscience when it came to the many acts of sexual violence against children in their parishes, by pedophile priest. They have routinely transferred offenders to other parishes, without warning parishioners. Where these wolves in sheep's clothing continued their heinous acts on other innocent children. I am no expert on Catholic doctrine, but I'm sure it does not condone these despicable acts. Yet the Catholic Church have not expressed a fraction of the concern shown in the contraception issue, to the issue of their Priest destroying young lives. Many have come to the aid of the Catholic Church on the contraception issue, saying that the government has no right to interfere with the teachings of their religion. Few have addressed the issue of one church, and one religion, dictating policy that effect people from many churches and religions (not to mention countless millions of non religious Americans).
The Catholic Church is arguing Separation of Church and State, and Religious freedom; while effectively forcing their beliefs on the government and intruding on the religious freedom of others.