Religious Rights Vs Our Money

Rush explained more today about exactly what was up with Rebecca Fluker. The congressional hearing was supposed to be about - did the President have the right to force religious institutions to violate their beliefs by providing birth control at all - let alone free birth control - to people.

And of course it was co-opted into an accusation that the Republicans as a whole didn't want to let women have birth control period.

Now there's a dichotomy there. It's the belief of Islamists that women are dirt, less than dogs (and they don't think very highly of dogs, either) and that if a woman is raped she must wed her rapist or be thrown in jail. Are we to let that go just because it is their religious belief?

Of course there is the common sense thing - if you want to be able to get free birth control, go to an institution that gives that. Don't go to a religious institution that doesn't it, and try to change their religious beliefs.

There's a saying in the Bible - the poor we shall always have with us. They were put here to make us charitable.

I'd say, the poor we shall always have with us, if women keep having babies even when they can't afford them! And if religion makes them have those babies, so that the relgious folk will always have a reason to ask for donations to help all these poor folk....