I remember leaving public elementary school Wednesday afternoons for CCD (Catholic doctrine, never knew what it meant). One day around third grade one gal was goaded by her cool friends to ask how Mary was a virgin. The nun was very flustered and the next week a priest came in to explain it to us.
It made no sense to me, real sex (I didn’t have a clue until my little sister told me two years later) or virtual sex through a divine being. It was all mixed up in the crazy RC religion so didn’t really matter as I competed to win scapulas for the five miracles of whatever.
No sex education ever took place, except that fantastical class in which the priest was dumbfounded. The last thing I remember of CCD was my sister refusing the 52-week box of envelopes for personal donations at Mass every week. She refused it twice, then finally told Sister that we go to the parish down the street! I really love her chops on that one!
When I started working for the legislature on insurance issues, thirty years ago, everything we proposed, including offering (not paying for, just offering) well baby care got a three word response from the Industry. Will Increase Premiums. Legislators were frightened of the insurance lobby because they gave money to folks they liked. We did get well baby care passed but do you think anyone got an insurance rebate when companies raked in the profits after the seat belt law was enacted?
State legislators were fearful of the state-by-state insurance lobby (the lobby’s choice) but our President, Barack Obama is more fearful of Rome, the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church. I believe his step-down position should have been his primary position so he wouldn’t look as if he’s caving to Rome in the first place.
Many others have said in better ways that these institutions of higher learning and hospitals receive major federal funding so they should be subject to rules in order to accept that funding. I agree.
Last I heard there was a separation of church and state here in these united states. Of course people want to blur the line otherwise they wouldn’t be seen as working. Fact is, I don’t want to see women be treated worse in healthcare when they work for a Roman Catholic institution.
This has been a week of Prop 8, Susan G Komen and now this debacle. Conservative Utahans don’t want California gays to marry. Susan J Komen caves to conservatives that don’t want poor women to have mammograms to detect breast cancer, and Catholics don’t want insurance companies to allow access to birth control. Is this really 2012 or did I awaken in a different decade?
Here are my solutions: Utah, take your hands of California, let the courts rule; Komen, you did a big boo boo to your donors, fix it and forget about ego; and to the RC church, let it go. Your members can go to the 7/11 and buy a condom. And they do.
All for this post, fellow readers and writers of more than I’m capable of submitting. Cheers, Dee
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