"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution...
The hot topic of the day is the continuous debate concerning the HHS mandate for employers of religiously affiliated institutions to supply their employees with insurance for contraceptives. I am absolutely disgusted, frustrated, and damnably mad at the way in which this debate is being framed... at times I consciously have to remove myself from such conversations because the stupidity, illogicality, and utter ignorance about the issue makes my blood boil; I'm trying to remain a somewhat charitable, practicing Christian. So please bear with me as I go on my tirade about the imbecility of the populace, the media outlets, and the pro-HHS mandate legislators. Most fundamentally this issue is an issue of Religious Freedom and the violation of the first amendment. Let me be very clear, "THIS IS NOT AN ISSUE OF CONTRACEPTION!"
With or without the mandate, (Members of Congress, why does the president have the power to mandate and determine what are preventive health services?") women have access to contraception. This is not an issue about access to birth-control or an issue of outlawing birth control or not. Anyone can go to the nearest drug store, rest stop bathrooms, CVS, Rite Aid, and a host of others, not to mention your local Planned Parenthood clinic, who by the way receives enough of our tax dollars, and buy oneself contraceptives.In fact, last night I heard the DNC chairwoman say that contraception can cost a woman $700 a year if she has to pay for it on her own. I'm sorry, but $700 does not seem like a large amount to me for a whole year. While I know there are many women who this expense is a burden for, I also know that if citizens would sacrifice their heated car seats, daily latte, cable television, etc., they could very easily afford to pay $700 our of pocket for contraceptives. For instance, if one pays $50 bucks a month for cable tv and $90 a month on coffee or going out for a drink, he is spending $1680 a year, more than twice the amount needed to purchase contraception for a year. Women have access to contraception as they need it. Besides, who decided that contraception is a right of women to possess? What about the hundreds of years women lived in our country without contraception? Now that it has been made available as a, in my opinion harmful commodity, it becomes a right? Do we have a right to air conditioning, to heat, to a BMW? Where do we draw the line? Not only that, the argument is that women have a right to FREE contraception. Why do any of us have the right to anything free except those inalienable rights found in natural law and outlined in the Constitution? It seems to me an incredibly gross exaggeration and lessening of the importance of rights to claim that women have the right to free contraceptives, or contraceptives covered by insurance. Nevertheless this is a moot point because it misses the mark of the actual issue.
The case in point is a problem of the disregard for the First Amendment. The current administration is brazenly disregarding the Constitution of the United States of America in order to impose what he thinks is best for the country on others, trampling on and stifling the religious convictions of others. The Administration and the Liberal left is all up in arms about any time the Church seems to be too close to the state. Excuse me, Mr. President, if you would like us to keep our hands out of the government, then keep yours out of our Church! You are disregarding one of the most basic reasons pilgrims came to America. Is there no end to your disrespect? Is there no cap to your arrogance? What gives you the right, Mr. President to tell me that my religious convictions are wrong, unimportant and that you know better than our founding fathers? Separation of Church and State, the liberal left cries, and yet here they are meddling in the matters of Church and trying to frame the argument in misleading, inaccurate terms.
The reason the liberal left is attempting to frame the debate in terms of contraception instead of religious liberty is because something like 97% of American women use contraception and if the debate can be framed in terms of allowing or disallowing contraception, the public throwback will be tremendous. The liberal left knows this is a direct assault on religious freedom. They know that it is trampling upon the U.S. Constitution. They in fact, want to re-write or throw out the Constitution because it limits their power too much but of course if that is commonly known as their purpose... which it is not although they have made such statements in public and on record (Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Justice Ginsberg to name a few). So I urge you my fellow Americans, do not be deceived by these lies! Do not turn a blind eye to this assault on our Constitution. Stand up for this country, stand up for those brave Minute-Men who fought the British tyrant who would not allow the free exercise of religion. Let us respect and defend the memory of George Washington, John Adams, James Madison, Ben Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson to name a few. Let this land, this nation, our country remain a land of liberty and freedom. For years we fought against Communism in the Soviet Union and Fascism in Nazi Germany, will we not raise their banners and follow the lead of those doomed tyrannies? Let us raise the Stars and Stripes and defend the Land of the free and the home of the brave. Regardless of what you think about contraception, stand up and fight for religious liberty to use or to not use contraceptives, to be able to live according to your conscience! Now if ever is the time for us to show that this truly is the land of the brave. Who will join me?
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