I have tried to re-write this many times in an effort to be more diplomatic, to not offend anyone - but the truth is? I can't do it. I can't sugar-coat or placate anyone anymore.
Our Governor Sam Brownback seems to think it's incredibly easy to find a job, let alone a job with health insurance - because obviously if we silly, little women want our whore pills we should have to pay for them ourselves.
But here is the problem with that - Jobs are NOT easy to come by. Jobs with benefits are even harder to come by. (Look at the medical field in Wichita - the vast majority of hospital jobs have religious affiliation) What that blow-hard Brownback said was flippin' ignorance.
However, we all know he's a raging douchebag - NO ONE should have been surprised by his outburst. His concern for the Catholic Church and its delicate sensibilities was at the forefront of that entire interview - but I have to ask myself...where are the everyday Catholics?
Do they not understand that by supporting a Church that undermines their fundamental rights - is reinforcing and supporting that behavior? And potentially for a lot of non-Catholics too? Every time you tithe, every time you fill your pill prescription in secret - every time you ignore that little portion of the church's teachings - you are causing the problem. Now maybe the Catholic Church will never change its policy on contraception - but it's quite obvious that practicing Catholics sure aren't adhering to it. According to a recent Guttmacher study - 98% of Catholic women use some sort of birth control - yet they continue to practice and PAY to practice in a church that disallows that behavior. My message to Catholics - STAND UP FOR YOURSELVES! And if that doesn't work - find another Church to attend. Supporting their antiquated view on the subject of family planning is adding fuel to the fire - one that has the potential to burn all of us. The only way the Catholic church is going to change is from within.
Until then - I suggest the rest of us make it perfectly clear that the Pope and his pointy hat need to stay the hell away from our uteri.
Our Governor Sam Brownback seems to think it's incredibly easy to find a job, let alone a job with health insurance - because obviously if we silly, little women want our whore pills we should have to pay for them ourselves.
But here is the problem with that - Jobs are NOT easy to come by. Jobs with benefits are even harder to come by. (Look at the medical field in Wichita - the vast majority of hospital jobs have religious affiliation) What that blow-hard Brownback said was flippin' ignorance.
However, we all know he's a raging douchebag - NO ONE should have been surprised by his outburst. His concern for the Catholic Church and its delicate sensibilities was at the forefront of that entire interview - but I have to ask myself...where are the everyday Catholics?
Do they not understand that by supporting a Church that undermines their fundamental rights - is reinforcing and supporting that behavior? And potentially for a lot of non-Catholics too? Every time you tithe, every time you fill your pill prescription in secret - every time you ignore that little portion of the church's teachings - you are causing the problem. Now maybe the Catholic Church will never change its policy on contraception - but it's quite obvious that practicing Catholics sure aren't adhering to it. According to a recent Guttmacher study - 98% of Catholic women use some sort of birth control - yet they continue to practice and PAY to practice in a church that disallows that behavior. My message to Catholics - STAND UP FOR YOURSELVES! And if that doesn't work - find another Church to attend. Supporting their antiquated view on the subject of family planning is adding fuel to the fire - one that has the potential to burn all of us. The only way the Catholic church is going to change is from within.
Until then - I suggest the rest of us make it perfectly clear that the Pope and his pointy hat need to stay the hell away from our uteri.
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