You Go Sisters!
Mar. 18th, 2010 01:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aviv_b_artworkThe US Conference of Catholic Bishops has come out against health care reform due to the coverage of abortion, Historically, the Catholic Church in the US has been one of the strongest supporters of universal health care - but they can't seem to acknowledge the fact that abortion is legal in the United States.. And they are willing to abandon millions of Americans who desperately need health care (the already born) in order to protect what they call the unborn.
Likewise, the Church has also taken a much more active role lately in its supporting actions that strips the GLBT community of rights that straight people take for granted. Not just marriage, but again access to health care. Catholic Charities in Washington D.C. is ending health care coverage of spouses because they might have to cover gay spouses as gay marriage became legal in the D.C.. If you think its morally appropriate that everyone have access to health care, why would you care how the person got coverage? They are willing to forgo covering straight spouses to make sure that human beings, who happen to be gay, will not have access to health care.
What next? Will you be dropping coverage for single employees because some of them might be gay? And what about children? Are you going to drop coverage for families because someone's child might be gay. Hello Catholic Charities; are you too stupid to realize that you are already covering lots and lots of gay people whether you acknowledge it or not?
And don't even get me started on the ever increasing child rape scandals. Let's call it what it is. Members of your male hierarchy raped children. Plain and simple. It is against the law and it is repugnant to any decent human being. And yet you continue to work to withhold rights from people who are in loving consensual relationships while at the same time you are hiding crimes against children and protecting rapists. Shame on you!
There is one piece of good news. From Think Progress:
Likewise, the Church has also taken a much more active role lately in its supporting actions that strips the GLBT community of rights that straight people take for granted. Not just marriage, but again access to health care. Catholic Charities in Washington D.C. is ending health care coverage of spouses because they might have to cover gay spouses as gay marriage became legal in the D.C.. If you think its morally appropriate that everyone have access to health care, why would you care how the person got coverage? They are willing to forgo covering straight spouses to make sure that human beings, who happen to be gay, will not have access to health care.
What next? Will you be dropping coverage for single employees because some of them might be gay? And what about children? Are you going to drop coverage for families because someone's child might be gay. Hello Catholic Charities; are you too stupid to realize that you are already covering lots and lots of gay people whether you acknowledge it or not?
And don't even get me started on the ever increasing child rape scandals. Let's call it what it is. Members of your male hierarchy raped children. Plain and simple. It is against the law and it is repugnant to any decent human being. And yet you continue to work to withhold rights from people who are in loving consensual relationships while at the same time you are hiding crimes against children and protecting rapists. Shame on you!
There is one piece of good news. From Think Progress:
