This is a guest post by The Dysfunction Junction editor Kent McCarty. McCarty is an 18 year-old student at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. He plans to run for President in 2048. To read more by McCarty, visit The Dysfunction Junction by clicking HERE.
Troops, drop your weapons. Surrender. The war is over and it hasn’t even begun.
The war for which I’ve already thrown in the towel is, of course, the war on contraception. Why so eager to raise the white flag? Because the war doesn’t exist. With the exception of some tin foil hat-wearers, no one, and I mean no one, in the conservative movement wants to rid the world of contraception. If you listen to the always-insightful left, however, you’d think our artillery was aimed at the headquarters of Pfizer and Bayer. The simple truth is that nobody on the right cares if you want to pop birth control like skittles or buy condoms by the crate; just don’t make me, or the Catholic Church, pay for it.
At the this point, the issue involving the Catholic church and birth control seems to have been solved. The President was right to walk back his earlier mandate to Catholic organizations that would require them to pay for the birth control of their employees. Such a mandate puts the Catholic church at odds with a major part of their teachings and it violates their religious freedom. Some debate remains as to whether the church is actually in the clear, but I’ll give the President the benefit of the doubt for now. Whether it’s truly been resolved or not, this ordeal still exposes a very valid question: Why did birth control become government mandated right anyway?…
To read the rest of this article about President Obama’s birth control mandate, visit The Dysfunction Junction at the link below:
http://www.thedysfunctionjunction.com/2012/02/17/catholics-cough-drops-and-the-war-on-contraception/
