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5. Now Father Dumb**** is on, claiming Catholic hospitals take NO public money.
Really? None? They don't accept Medicare? I didn't know that.
Perhaps they should stop taking Medicare. Catholic hospitals are usually the first to take indigent and needy people. Many of them have Medicare/caid. But we could end this whole conversation by said hospitals deciding not to accept patients with government funded health insurance. Let Our Goddess of Perpetual Atheism take those patients. Problem solved. Granted, there will probably be a lot of poor people not getting proper care but at least you won't have to worry about a closed minded institution getting one damn dime from the government.
By the way...the boy king won't be in power forever...and the pendulum is swinging our way. You guys know it in the depths of your being. Given the precedent being set by your guy, you should be very afraid. If government can mandate that birth control & abortions be taxpayer funded, then it can also mandate the opposite, depending on the whim of the person sitting in the big chair. And to think you people used to get all outraged over signing statements. SIGNING STATEMENTS (the boy king seems to like these as much as past presidents), which is basically writing in the margins vs. MANDATING the kinds of things Americans have to pay for.
This violates my freedom a lot more than a president who decides government health care should NOT pay for birth control & abortion. Whether the government pays or not, you can still get these services. Heck, there are probably charities that will help you pay for them. But me, my religion (that would be the 2nd Amendment) has taught me that we must protect the least & most innocent among us (that isn't a gay, transvestite prostitute trying to shake a heroin habit). And murdering a baby, one so helpless they can't even cry out loud, is the gravest of sins. If you want the church to stay out of politics, then keep your politics out of my church.
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
- Ayn Rand
Suck it assholes!
Cindie