Dammit Marco. I almost liked you a little bit after you switched your stance on PIPA.

bentheguard: Here is the "Common Sense" bill that should pass:

You don't want birth control? Don't use it!

Seriously. If churches are that concerned about providing birth control to their employees, they shouldn't be hiring whores.

Lurking Fear: Same closet homosexuals who keep sodomy laws on the books. Nice, cocksmoker.

Sense. You make none of it.

I find it amusing that the anti-abortion people are may times anti-contraceptive people, who also complain about people having kids and then using government funded programs that help people take care of their kids.

GWLush: They just want to control what women do with their vaginas. Once you get control of vaginas you can take over the world.

The vagina must flow.

RUBIO! RUBIO! RU-BEE-OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH!

/Stupid file size limits

Eddie Adams from Torrance: My religious beliefs are against chemotherapy, MRI's, pregnancy, substance abuse, and prescription drugs.

I'm gonna save a ton on health insurance for my employees.

Someone think of the Christian Scientists!!!!!

The "The Religious Freedom Restoration Act?"

fark you Rubio. fark you hard.

Bevets: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) introduced a bill on Monday that would override the Obama administration's new rule on birth control coverage and allow religious hospitals, universities, and other organizations that morally oppose contraception to refuse to cover it for their employees...

"This is a common-sense bill that simply says the government can't force religious organizations to abandon the fundamental tenets of their faith because the government says so," Rubio said in a statement.

To force American citizens to choose between violating their consciences and forgoing their healthcare is literally unconscionable. It is as much an attack on access to health care as on religious freedom. Historically this represents a challenge and a compromise of our religious liberty. ~ Timothy M Dolan

Good, I'm converting to Islam and having my daughters circumcised.
/not really

Bevets: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) introduced a bill on Monday that would override the Obama administration's new rule on birth control coverage and allow religious hospitals, universities, and other organizations that morally oppose contraception to refuse to cover it for their employees...

"This is a common-sense bill that simply says the government can't force religious organizations to abandon the fundamental tenets of their faith because the government says so," Rubio said in a statement.

To force American citizens to choose between violating their consciences and forgoing their healthcare is literally unconscionable. It is as much an attack on access to health care as on religious freedom. Historically this represents a challenge and a compromise of our religious liberty. ~ Timothy M Dolan

Dolan said this?

The Catholics worked with the Nazis to save their own asses. Compromise indeed.

Bevets: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) introduced a bill on Monday that would override the Obama administration's new rule on birth control coverage and allow religious hospitals, universities, and other organizations that morally oppose contraception to refuse to cover it for their employees...

"This is a common-sense bill that simply says the government can't force religious organizations to abandon the fundamental tenets of their faith because the government says so," Rubio said in a statement.

To force American citizens to choose between violating their consciences and forgoing their healthcare is literally unconscionable. It is as much an attack on access to health care as on religious freedom. Historically this represents a challenge and a compromise of our religious liberty. ~ Timothy M Dolan

GWLush: What is so stupid about this is that the insurance mandate doesn't make anyone actually get contraception. It is just to provide it if someone wants or needs it. Why is this wrong? In what way does it go against their religion?

Bots can't read prior posts.

lomnoir: brantgoose: Marco.

Polo.

No no no. Marco Rubio was that mouse puppet that used to be on the Ed Sullivan show.

Eh. I'm actually kinda OK with this. I mean, the Catholic policy against birth control is patently absurd, but let them deny such coverage to every employee at every Catholic-affiliated hospital and university and see how many quality doctors and professors choose to move to employers that don't live in the Middle Ages.

It is wrong because your belief in magic shouldn't be used as an excuse to get out of paying for certain services that your employees require.

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: bentheguard: Here is the "Common Sense" bill that should pass:

You don't want birth control? Don't use it!

Seriously. If churches are that concerned about providing birth control to their employees, they shouldn't be hiring whores.

I always found it interesting that the right of a church not to be forced to provide birth control trumps their employees right to purchase it. I mean it isn't like they have to provide STI treatment ...

/or prenatal care/maternity leave for their unmarried employees
/INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM FTW!!!

Marcus Aurelius: "This is a common-sense bill that simply says the government can't force religious organizations to abandon the fundamental tenets of their faith because the government says so," Rubio said

So he's in favor of Rastafarians smoking pot, then?

The governement forces my church to not stone known adulturers, and children that talk back, I assume then this practice can resume?

Just because the employer has to provide it doesn't mean that the employees have to use it. So if they are good God fearing conservatives, they won't need it.

Seriously, people need to get over birth control.

It's here, it's happening, and people want it.

So much for smaller government and protecting people's private decisions, eh, Republicans?

Showmanship. Any such bill would have to pass both houses and not be vetoed. An idiot can comprehend this, but apparently not Rubio's base.

I want to burn witches again!

meat0918: Duke Phillips' Singing Bears: The "The Religious Freedom Restoration Act?"

fark you Rubio. fark you hard.

We don't allow a lot of things that have a religious basis. Human sacrifice, while extreme is one such example.

Just another step on the road to theocracy. Everyone have their tickets and handbaskets?

What drives me nuts about it is how misnomer and hyperbole is commonly the only thing that goes into naming bills.

"Restoring religious freedom" is so blatantly designed to paint anyone who disagrees with it as, simply, against religious freedom, while at the same time it somehow implies that religious freedom is under attack in the country.

I'm sick to death of this shiat.

So will Jehovah Witnesses not have to pay for healthcare with blood transfusion/surgery.


They are paying for the HEALTHCARE not the contraception. That's like saying a company an pay you money and say you are not allowed to spend it on certain things.

Look, assholes. You're a hospital first and a religious institution second. If you have a problem with certain aspects of health care, then don't become a health care provider.

And Catholics forcing non-Catholics to adhere to the tenets of the Catholic faith (no abortions, no birth control) is exactly why we have freedom of religion. Freedom of religion was invented so more powerful religious groups couldn't force less powerful religious groups to convert to their religion.