Nobody is trying to force people to take birth control.
And no one is claiming they are. That's a nice straw man, but its irrelevant to the current controversy.
just the opposite!
Not really. The opposite would be, depending on how you look at it, either they are trying to force people not to take birth control, or that they are trying to remove force from the equation completely. Neither of those things are happening.
If you leave these decisions strictly with the individual instead of some group whether it is a bunch of bishops or the government
The decision on usage is left to the individual, whether or not you force a group or organization to pay for it.
if you encourage freedom
Forcing others to pay for things, is infringing on freedom, not encouraging it.
But when you give authority to a bunch of child molesting Catholic bishops
Teachers have molested more kids than bishops. Should one categorize every controversy over public education as what we do for the child molesting teachers. Of course not. Most of each group have not molested children, and molesting children, while a very serious concern, is irrelevant to the current controversy.
or trying to control the use of contraceptives
Except they are not doing that, at least not as part of the current controversy. Arguing that they are is like saying that since I'd like a Ferrari, that the fact that you won't pay for it means your trying to control the use of cars. The claim that not paying for something is imposing a restriction on that thing, is logically bizarre, and hostile to both liberty, and the ability to reach any reasonable political compromises. If the other side has to not just let you do what you want to do, but support the effort, then politics becomes about imposing raw force on the otherside, the negotiation is only over the terms of surrender. |
