AND NOW…IDIOTS
Barry Lynn keeps it classy:
The “religious-liberty claim” of the likes of Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ president, in the debate over the Obama administration’s contraception/sterilization/abortion mandate is “bull****.”
That was the explicit message Barry Lynn, president of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, delivered at a feminist-majority “Women, Money, Power Forum” in Washington, D.C., March 29.
“What have we learned in school today?” he asked the crowd. “We learned that the Protestant religious right and the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church today have no moral authority whatsoever to seize on the rights of women.”
That’s not what they’re doing, dumbass. They’re defending actual Christian doctrine instead of letting a secular, atheist culture tell them what they believe. Since Barry’s an ordained minister in the United Church of the Zeitgeist, you can see where that might confuse the hysterical old bigot.
Waxing theological, Lynn explained that “the central message of the Christian church is the significance of Jesus. It is not now — it never has been — about IUDs [intrauterine devices]; it’s not about Norplant; and it’s not even about abortion.
Barry Lynn. Proud graduate and class valedictorian of Mike & Chopper’s Sports Bar, Grill and Theological Seminary.
“Real religious liberty does have a meaning in this country and should have a meaning throughout the world,” he went on to say. “It should mean that governments should not tell the church what it should believe. It does mean that government can’t play favorites among religions or even between theists and atheists. It means that persons of faith can proselytize, can evangelize, can even condemn those who don’t believe, so long as they do it on their own time.
Impressive words. They would have been much more impressive if their egregious fraud of a speaker hadn’t decided to go full Jack Chick for some reason.
Lynn characterized the Catholic Church’s claim of religious liberty this way: “Here’s what the other side says: ‘We in the institutional Church have the right to get as much money from the government as our well-heeled lobbyists can possibly squeeze out of it, and, then, we, as a corporate entity, demand that we be allowed to ignore any and all the rules, regulations or civil-rights laws that we don’t like.’”
As far as Barry’s concerned, you Mariolators can believe anything you want to as long as you stop believing it whenever the government tells you to stop.
It’s an interpretation of religious liberty, he said, “that has got to be stopped, because if that’s the interpretation of religious freedom, then the Church ends up setting up all the rules. Anything that violates some claim, some tenet of some faith, no matter how trivial it may be, becomes a justification for exemption from the laws that apply to the rest of us. Any adverse effect that those exemptions have on anybody else is just tough luck for us, a cost of doing the Church’s business”
Because your opinions are stupid.
“And why not?” Lynn continued. “Of course it should be covered. For these corporations employ hundreds, even thousands, of people who have no connection to the religious orientation of that institution. Second, those corporations get hundreds of millions of tax dollars from state and federal programs. And third, these corporations hold themselves out as performing a service for the public. There’s no St. Joseph’s Hospital somewhere that says, ‘Come to our hospital and learn about Jesus.’
They say, ‘Come to our hospital because we’ll treat and try to cure your cancer.’ And that’s the trifecta of constitutional differences that mean that they should not be exempted from the laws that apply to every other community institution and every other person.”
Every reasonable person knows that paying someone’s cab fare to the abortion clinic is not committing a sin so grow the hell up.
And the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Lynn predicted, will “again scream from the rooftops: ‘This is an infringement on our civil rights!’ Even a simple administrative act like handing out a form will be treated as if it were complicity in a sin as grave as murder or theft or adultery”
Barry wants you to remember that the national phrase of the United States is E Pluribus Unum which every American school child knows is Latin for “You have the right to follow the dictates of my conscience.”
Further, he expressed outrage that the bishops are making an argument for the religious freedom of not only their own diocesan and other institutions, but others as well: “They’re saying: ‘We demand that every single Catholic or fundamentalist business owner has the right to overrule the conscience of his employees too.’
After all, the Establishment Clause was written well over fifty years ago and no longer has any relevance for the modern world.
“You see, you can’t run a comprehensive health-care system in this country — in legalese that is a ‘compelling government interest’ — if every employer can opt out of providing their employees the coverage that they desperately need or want whenever a single tenet of the faith is impinged upon in some tangential way.”
The stupid douche went on to say some more idiotic crap and you can read it at the link if you want to. As for me, I can only take brain-dead leftist sock puppets like Barry Lynn in extremely limited doses.
That was the explicit message Barry Lynn, president of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, delivered at a feminist-majority “Women, Money, Power Forum” in Washington, D.C., March 29.
“What have we learned in school today?” he asked the crowd. “We learned that the Protestant religious right and the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church today have no moral authority whatsoever to seize on the rights of women.”
That’s not what they’re doing, dumbass. They’re defending actual Christian doctrine instead of letting a secular, atheist culture tell them what they believe. Since Barry’s an ordained minister in the United Church of the Zeitgeist, you can see where that might confuse the hysterical old bigot.
Waxing theological, Lynn explained that “the central message of the Christian church is the significance of Jesus. It is not now — it never has been — about IUDs [intrauterine devices]; it’s not about Norplant; and it’s not even about abortion.
Barry Lynn. Proud graduate and class valedictorian of Mike & Chopper’s Sports Bar, Grill and Theological Seminary.
“Real religious liberty does have a meaning in this country and should have a meaning throughout the world,” he went on to say. “It should mean that governments should not tell the church what it should believe. It does mean that government can’t play favorites among religions or even between theists and atheists. It means that persons of faith can proselytize, can evangelize, can even condemn those who don’t believe, so long as they do it on their own time.
Impressive words. They would have been much more impressive if their egregious fraud of a speaker hadn’t decided to go full Jack Chick for some reason.
Lynn characterized the Catholic Church’s claim of religious liberty this way: “Here’s what the other side says: ‘We in the institutional Church have the right to get as much money from the government as our well-heeled lobbyists can possibly squeeze out of it, and, then, we, as a corporate entity, demand that we be allowed to ignore any and all the rules, regulations or civil-rights laws that we don’t like.’”
As far as Barry’s concerned, you Mariolators can believe anything you want to as long as you stop believing it whenever the government tells you to stop.
It’s an interpretation of religious liberty, he said, “that has got to be stopped, because if that’s the interpretation of religious freedom, then the Church ends up setting up all the rules. Anything that violates some claim, some tenet of some faith, no matter how trivial it may be, becomes a justification for exemption from the laws that apply to the rest of us. Any adverse effect that those exemptions have on anybody else is just tough luck for us, a cost of doing the Church’s business”
Because your opinions are stupid.
“And why not?” Lynn continued. “Of course it should be covered. For these corporations employ hundreds, even thousands, of people who have no connection to the religious orientation of that institution. Second, those corporations get hundreds of millions of tax dollars from state and federal programs. And third, these corporations hold themselves out as performing a service for the public. There’s no St. Joseph’s Hospital somewhere that says, ‘Come to our hospital and learn about Jesus.’
They say, ‘Come to our hospital because we’ll treat and try to cure your cancer.’ And that’s the trifecta of constitutional differences that mean that they should not be exempted from the laws that apply to every other community institution and every other person.”
Every reasonable person knows that paying someone’s cab fare to the abortion clinic is not committing a sin so grow the hell up.
And the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Lynn predicted, will “again scream from the rooftops: ‘This is an infringement on our civil rights!’ Even a simple administrative act like handing out a form will be treated as if it were complicity in a sin as grave as murder or theft or adultery”
Barry wants you to remember that the national phrase of the United States is E Pluribus Unum which every American school child knows is Latin for “You have the right to follow the dictates of my conscience.”
Further, he expressed outrage that the bishops are making an argument for the religious freedom of not only their own diocesan and other institutions, but others as well: “They’re saying: ‘We demand that every single Catholic or fundamentalist business owner has the right to overrule the conscience of his employees too.’
After all, the Establishment Clause was written well over fifty years ago and no longer has any relevance for the modern world.
“You see, you can’t run a comprehensive health-care system in this country — in legalese that is a ‘compelling government interest’ — if every employer can opt out of providing their employees the coverage that they desperately need or want whenever a single tenet of the faith is impinged upon in some tangential way.”
The stupid douche went on to say some more idiotic crap and you can read it at the link if you want to. As for me, I can only take brain-dead leftist sock puppets like Barry Lynn in extremely limited doses.
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