OK, so Sharia law is out, but enforcing Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical law is OK?

[LuckyTheDog]

I have a fair number of Roman Catholics in my family. I know a lot of other Roman Catholics. One thing I know about them is that the use of birth control is not "against their religion" -- not really.

They have nothing like a "deeply held belief" that using birth control is immoral. I mean, they all know what the Pope says about it. But virtually every one of them would say that the Pope is wrong and that using birth control is not a sin.

So, why are the bishops making this an issue? It's NOT because the church membership is telling them to do it. It's because the Vatican -- a sovereign foreign government -- is telling them to do it. They are making a case for changing U.S. policy based on religious law that was created outside the U.S. by a foreign head of state.

Put THAT in your pipe and smoke it.