Top Comments: Birth Control Mandate

On POLL: Should Religious Organizations Be Exempt from the Government's Birth Control Mandate?

Jim Rizoli said: ...In other words RELIGIONS have lost control of their people, and moral issues don't seem to be of any interest to the flock.
Christianity, Judaism, the main line religions, have failed in the installing of God like values in their followers. Why go to Church if you don't do what God ask of you.
We are now "reaping what we've have sown".

Sanity Soapbox said: The case here is, I believe, one where these recent "ad-hoc" mandates about contraception will ultimately be judged on the basis of their constitutionality. That is, this argument will eventually make it to the U.S. Supreme Court, where they will rule on whether these contraception mandates violate the "establishment clause" and/or inspect them on the basis of other precedent.

Kim Poness said: Birth control and morality? I'm confused. If I understand correctly, the only form of birth control acceptable in Catholicism is abstinence. So, if I'm married (which I am), and I am of an age or station in life where I do not want any more children (which I am), that means that I if I practice anything other than abstinence, I'm immoral? That just doesn't make sense to me. Further, I don't feel it's the government's job to make that decision for me. Nor is it the church's. It's my decision.