On the heels of the suit filed by 40 Catholic institutions to stop the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"), Maureen Dowd tells us what we already know: in overwhelming numbers, Americans, including American Catholics, think birth control is "morally acceptable." And she has some choice words to say about the old Rethuglican men at the top of the Church's hierarchy bearing false witness about an Obama "war on religion", and whose agenda is blatantly anti-woman.
"... I wasn’t surprised to see the Gallup poll Tuesday showing that 82 percent of U.S. Catholics say birth control is morally acceptable. (Eighty-nine percent of all Americans and 90 percent of non-Catholics agreed.) [snip]
"The poll appeared on the same day as headlines about Catholic Church leaders fighting President Obama’s attempt to get insurance coverage for contraception for women who work or go to college at Catholic institutions. The church insists it’s an argument about religious freedom, not birth control. But, really, it’s about birth control, and women’s lower caste in the church. It’s about conservative bishops targeting Democratic candidates who support contraception and abortion rights as a matter of public policy. And it’s about a church that is obsessed with sex in ways it shouldn’t be, and not obsessed with sex in ways it should be. [my emphasis]
"The bishops and the Vatican care passionately about putting women in chastity belts. Yet they let unchaste priests run wild for decades, unconcerned about the generations of children who were violated and raped and passed around like communion wine."
Amen, sister!
