Discussion for article #238419
Ah, hahahaha! Good!
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And now to the SCOTUS, where they hope the Fraudulent Four will rule based on the Bible instead of the Constitution and convince Captain Waffles to side with them.
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Or how about single source reproductive health insurance for all women? If your religion is against it, you don’t have to use it. Women can make decisions about their bodies and everybody else can mind their own damn business.
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I’ll be surprised if SCOTUS grants cert to this nonsense.
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“There is no reason the government cannot run its programs without hijacking the Little Sisters and their healthplan,”
Except it’s NOT, counselor.
Oh really? You talking about the same SCOTUS which took up King vs. Burwell?
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The Little Sisters of the Poor do admirable charity work, but I am glad they lost this argument.
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Will no one rid us of this meddlesome litigator?
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…but some religious groups have decried it as an attack on religious freedom.
No one is asking them to personally support the birth control mandate. Their religious freedom is a safe as a woman with a chastity belt.
And while I’m at it, MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.
Sorry for shouting. Well, no, I’m not.
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Yes. If you have ever paid the slightest attention to the justices’ legal thinking, you would be able to count the votes and come up short for certiorari. And, even if they did grant cert, they would rule at least 5-4 the same as the lower court.
So filing a form saying you do not wish to participate is an undue burden that violates your religious beliefs but filing a whole flipping lawsuit (saying, essentially, that you don’t wish to participate) does not? OK. Interesting logic.
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Without the poor, who are often women who have too many children, where would the Little Sisters be? To whom would they dole out their homilies and their charity, sparingly and with strings? You got me started.
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Yes they do and I have always had great respect for the order. I cannot help but wonder if they were manipulated somehow into being the subject of this case.
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Could it be that the little sisters are being subsidized by BIG brothers?
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And how stupid are we supposed to be? The “Nuns” want power. They want to control people. I’m not sure that isn’t the reason everyone joins the Clergy but for a good bit of them that’s the case. These ladies wanted to control the sec lives of young women.
There has to be a special place in Hell for women like this. For folks that use the cover of God to espouse bigotry and hate ( religious freedom ) and to dominate ( religious freedom ) and discriminate ( again…religious freedom ). If there is a God He must be pissed off at all this “taking His name in vain” and “false witness”.
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That would be my take as well. They have historically lived a poor life of service with families having trouble (despite working) feeding the families they do have. One cannot imagine that they wouldn’t at least think about the wisdom of bringing into being more children who have no hope for a decent life. These sisters need to have a sit-down with the Nuns on the Bus group.
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I hold a grudge against nuns and the Catholic church since they were of no help in the Thirties to my Italian immigrant grandparents who had six children, spoke no English and sometimes lived on what my grandfather shot when he went hunting. Mom passed that one to me. On the other hand, I really admire chaplains, who are often non-denominational, definitely non-judgmental and really good listeners and hand holders.
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As far as I know and I’ve heard Sister Simone speak, nuns don’t support reproductive rights though the Nuns on the Bus are far more Christian that many self-professed Christian. Paulie comes to mind…
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The Little Sisters were reprimanded by the US bishops a while back for being insufficiently concerned with “social” issues (in other words, they weren’t being anti-choice and anti-gay enough). I believe the result was that a bishop was placed in charge of their group to ensure doctrinal compliance; it’s almost certainly at his orders that the suit was filed.
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