Republican likens contraceptive mandate to Pearl Harbor, 9/11

[Contrary1]

Really, could they get any more absurd?

"A House Republican lawmaker likened the implementation of a new mandate that insurers offer coverage for contraceptive services to Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks against the United States.

Pennsylvania Rep. Mike Kelly (R), an ardent opponent of abortion rights, said that today's date would live in infamy alongside those two other historic occasions. Wednesday marked the day on which a controversial new requirement by the Department of Health and Human Services, which requires health insurance companies to cover contraceptive services for women, goes into effect.

"I know in your mind you can think of times when America was attacked. One is December 7th, that's Pearl Harbor day. The other is September 11th, and that's the day of the terrorist attack," Kelly said at a press conference on Capitol Hill. "I want you to remember August the 1st, 2012, the attack on our religious freedom. That is a day that will live in infamy, along with those other dates."

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"This is a right that every American should be outraged, outraged about what this administration and Secretary Sibelius has set forth here on August the 1st," New York Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle (R) said at the same press conference as Kelly. "And as Mike said, August the 1st is a day that we as American will look at as the largest assault on our First Amendment rights."

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[No Elephants]

1. As long as they don't overstate!

:silly:

August 1 is indeed a day that should live in infamy because the Huckster named it Chick Fil A Appreciation Day. Nothing like setting aside a day to honor bigotry.

(I am still waiting for Mr. Cathy to tell me where in the Bible he found God's definition of marriage.)

I wish some clergy member would finally tell the truth:

Homosexuality is mentioned in the bible only briefly, and a lot less than things like lying or gossiping. Certainly less than murder. Yet, we allow people who gossip, lie and murder to marry.

In the Bible, God says many things that he wanted people to do or to refrain from doing. Nowhere in the Bible, though, did he deputize ANYONE to enforce his wishes, or to see that they are enacted into secular law.

Indeed, both the Old Testament and the New Testament say many things about trying to make yourself better and next to nothing about forcing other people to live the way you think God wants them to. There is a difference between a massive control trip, which the Bible warns against over and over, and living YOUR OWN LIFE as YOU believe God told YOU to live.

[opihimoimoi]

3. Bullies using God in order to fool/rule others.....beware...

[No Elephants]

4. In personal matters, I ignore them but, as a citizen of the U.S., I don't have that luxury

because they keep trying to impose their idea of religion on the rest of us via legislation.

[Enthusiast]

2. The nutters get nuttier every day.........nt

[lbrtbell]

5. Face-fucking-palm! n/t