The Catholic Church, and those who are siding with the Catholic Church because it gives them an excuse to bash Obama, are up in arms that their "right" to demonize birth control is being infringed upon.
Let's think about this for a minute...
1. This is an organization run by celibate men...it's easy for them to say birth control is wrong. That makes about as much sense as me dictating the rules of the UFC.
2. This is an organization that systematically covered up the molestation of thousands of children by their own priests.
Why exactly are we listening to their opinion on morality related women's health? It seems 98% of sexually-active Catholic women who use birth control anyway stopped listening a long time ago. I say the rest of us follow suit.
Friday, February 10, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
War on who?
First, read this article from the NY Times: Student Faces Town’s Wrath in Protest Against a Prayer
We constantly hear Christians (and GOP candidates) talk about the war on religion and how they're being persecuted for their beliefs, and I'm sure this case will be another they cite as proof. But try to look at this situation objectively. This girl is simply saying that Christians should not be allowed to break the law, they should not get preferential treatment over those with differing beliefs. Those standing behind the banner say "it does no harm, what's the big deal"? But what would they say if another group wanted to hang a banner aside it with a Muslim message, or God forbid an atheist message? Tell me that those same outraged Christians wouldn't be first in line to have them taken down.
The Christian community, and many who have just never thought to question the societal norms, want people to feel sorry for them and become outraged for their mistreatment in cases like these. But look at how this girl is being treated for what she believes (or doesn't believe for that matter).
Like Jessica, I'm just a middle-class white girl from New England, so I'm not going to cry about how hard my life is. But I'm also an atheist (technically agnostic, but we're splitting hairs) and research shows that atheists are the most hated and distrusted minority in America:
"Atheists are at the top of the list of groups that Americans find problematic in both public and private life, and the gap between acceptance of atheists and acceptance of other racial and religious minorities is large and persistent. It is striking that the rejection of atheists is so much more common than rejection of other stigmatized groups. For example, while rejection of Muslims may have spiked in post-9/11 America, rejection of atheists was higher."
So keep that in mind next time you hear about the war on religion.
We constantly hear Christians (and GOP candidates) talk about the war on religion and how they're being persecuted for their beliefs, and I'm sure this case will be another they cite as proof. But try to look at this situation objectively. This girl is simply saying that Christians should not be allowed to break the law, they should not get preferential treatment over those with differing beliefs. Those standing behind the banner say "it does no harm, what's the big deal"? But what would they say if another group wanted to hang a banner aside it with a Muslim message, or God forbid an atheist message? Tell me that those same outraged Christians wouldn't be first in line to have them taken down.
The Christian community, and many who have just never thought to question the societal norms, want people to feel sorry for them and become outraged for their mistreatment in cases like these. But look at how this girl is being treated for what she believes (or doesn't believe for that matter).
Like Jessica, I'm just a middle-class white girl from New England, so I'm not going to cry about how hard my life is. But I'm also an atheist (technically agnostic, but we're splitting hairs) and research shows that atheists are the most hated and distrusted minority in America:
"Atheists are at the top of the list of groups that Americans find problematic in both public and private life, and the gap between acceptance of atheists and acceptance of other racial and religious minorities is large and persistent. It is striking that the rejection of atheists is so much more common than rejection of other stigmatized groups. For example, while rejection of Muslims may have spiked in post-9/11 America, rejection of atheists was higher."
So keep that in mind next time you hear about the war on religion.
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