Why Does Congress Allow a Pedophilia-ridden Church to Control Women’s Rights?

[Why Syzygy]

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By: RHRealityCheck Friday March 26, 2010 7:56 am

If you are, like me, confused about the answer to this question, please raise your hand….or better yet….ask your Congressperson and Senator. And ask the President.

Why is a pedophilia-ridden, pedophilia-hiding, child-abusing Church allowed to write laws controlling women’s rights?

I am talking, of course, about the Catholic Church and specifically about the hierarchy….not the good people of the Catholic faith.

The Church whose leadership, in case we didn’t already know this, has now been proven to have purposefully hidden an epidemic of pedophilia and–to protect priests, not born children–reassigned serial sex offenders to other parishes to offend again. The kind of people who, if they were not priests protected by the hierarchy of the Church would not be allowed by US law to come anywhere near children or schools? (...)

I ask again: Why is that Congress allows a pedophilia-ridden, pedophilia-hiding, child-abusing Church allowed to write laws about women’s rights?

And I am talking about deals cut over the past several years with the consent of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and other leading Democrats including:

* The 11th hour vote on the Stupak Amendment last fall in the health reform debate allowed by Speaker Pelosi after closed door meetings with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

* The statement by Senator Ben Nelson, author of the limitations in the health care bill that will eliminate women’s existing coverage of abortion care, that he had to confer with the USSCB on the language he proposed to govern women’s health and rights?

* The midnight-rewriting in 2008–the night before a vote–of the original reauthorization bill of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in which the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops–aided in this case by Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ), Congressman Joe Pitts (R-PA), and Congressman Mike Pence (R-IN)–worked long into the night with Congressman Howard Berman (D-CA) and his staff–with the blessing of the Speaker–to:

* deny HIV-positive women access to contraceptive supplies to avoid unwanted pregnancies (because these women knew already they would not live to raise any child born);
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[polichick]

1. No kidding. k&r nt

[madrchsod]

2. why? absolute power corrupts.......

[MichiganVote]

3. And a white male dominated Congress is any better? Hardly.

[Captain Hilts]

4. And the White House was willing to bargain women's rights away also. nt

[MichiganVote]

5. Yup. Always a reason to put women in the back of the bus--again.

[Why Syzygy]

9. They have all kinds of "special" interests

they listen to. None of them happen to be their electorate.

[MichiganVote]

10. Got that right.

[pleah]

6. K&R

[omega minimo]

7. because the male dominant paradigm is intact in all its fleshy, engorged, self absorbed glory

[Why Syzygy]

8. Because women's bodies are "evil"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imU1J7CndlQ
Hunted or haunted: Women killed for witchcraft in India

[Captain Hilts]

11. Okay, I laughed. You put that very aptly. nt

[omega minimo]

12. .

:wow:

[Ozymanithrax]

13. 1st Amendment to the Constitution...

[Why Syzygy]

14. You would think!

I honestly didn't know that our Congress-people consulted the Catholics before they write laws! Powerful lobby groups abound.

[Ozymanithrax]

15. Congress can not interfere with the church...and they have influence because a lot of catholics...

back them. It is that large number of people who agree with the Catholic Chruch and believe in God that Congrss hasn't got the balls to screw with.

[Odin2005]

16. because the RCC is fully insinuated with the Corporate Elite.

why do you think Blair and Gingrich have converted? the reactionary elements that dominate the church hierarchy have given full support to Corporatism and Fascism.

[Hello_Kitty]

17. Just like they always have.

The RCC is ALWAYS in bed with whomever the powerful elite are. Always.

[GKirk]

18. I always assumed it was...

..fundamentalist churches that were more against abortion than the Catholic church.
It seems to me that lots of Democrats are supported by the Catholic church.