TPM: Kerry Becomes Latest Dem to Oppose Obama on Contraception

[beachmom]

14. Well, let's wait and see what they say.

At this point, they are not the same position. The Obama Administration have announced nothing. We only hear of "compromise" type stories in the newspaper with no specifics.

And your main point is correct: there is no compromise here. Either it's covered or it isn't. Obama already compromised by delaying the implementation. Any further compromise would be pure and simple caving to extremists. Which John Kerry is fine with.

The Church is not only wrong constitutionally, they are wrong morally. Their position is DEAD wrong, and I say this as a Catholic. Their position leads to suffering especially in third world countries where being a "good Catholic" amounts to getting the AIDS virus. In a bigger picture point of view, their position DEPRIVES women of their rights. We're not talking something controversial here like abortion; we are talking about birth control. How nutty is that?

It's like no matter what Kerry does he's right according to you. That's crazy. And yes, Kerry's religious conscience bill which would allow pharmacists to object to filling prescriptions is bad policy. I said so at the time, and I continue to say so. Why do religious people have the right to disobey the law while any other group would not be allowed to do so? As said upthread, if a fan of Ayn Rand decided to no longer pay his employees the minimum wage because it went against his principles do you think he would be given one second of consideration by the government? Nope. Because the law is the law. He would be depriving his workers of basic labor rights. Yet women are afforded no such rights in the face of a Church which is still embroiled in a horrible systematic child abuse cover up scandal that spanned the whole globe? Ugh.