So I feel I now need to address these birth control shenanagains going on. Why? Well I'll tell you why. Because everyone now has the panties in a wad over something with a VERY simple solution.
Believe it or not, but it really isn't "Catholic Church v. Obama". Really, it isn't anyone v. Obama. It is just a matter of President Obama living up to the Oath he took January 21st, 2009. He said, I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. He said those words with his hand on the Holy Bible. That is pretty serious stuff. And now it is time for him to live up to that. Those words shouldn't be taken lightly. According to this oath, the President has one duty, one responsibility. To protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. And what is happening right now? It is being trampled on, all by one 1408 page bill called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. (Why do I know that is 1408 pages? Because I carried those 1408 pages all over the US Capitol). Let's go through the Constitutional atrocities in this bill.
A) Individual Mandate
-Many feel this is unconstitutional because it extends past the reach of the commerce clause (which embodies the necessary and proper clause) of the Constitution. Basically, the individual mandate demands that every individual buys health insurance by 2014, or they face major tax penalties. The Commerce Clause basically states that Congress can regulate commerce between states. Many say that extending this reach to individuals is unconstitutional and infringes on the rights of individuals.
B) Requirement for medically necessary abortions and birth control
- Many see this as an assault on the First Amendment. Basically, it demands that all institutions (being required to provide health care) must provide these services. This makes many people angry. The Catholic Church has just been the most vocal about it. They say this infringes on the First Amendment rights because the Church doesn't support the use of contraceptives and is dead set against abortions. But it doesn't have to be a completely religious issues. The government has no authority to tell institutions to provide things that they are morally against.
Most people's aversion comes from the fact that they feel that the government is getting too close to them, trying to control things that aren't theirs to control. Government is getting too big. The Obama administration is setting its sights too close to socialism. I think we need to take a look at the sustainability of socialist programs. America is 15 TRILLION dollars in debt. We aren't swimming in cash. We can't continue to fund things like this, because eventually, we are going to run out of borrowed money . If we look at the Socialist countries in Europe now, we see that most of them are on the verge of failure. The Euro is failing. These countries are trying to provide everything for their citizens, which could be seen as a noble task, but it certainly isn't a sustainable one. I don't want to see America fail. I don't want to see these European countries fail. But they only way to fix it is for citizens to stop relying on their government to give them everything they need/want. The beauty of America is the fact that we aren't afraid to fight for what we need. We are independent.
I love that the majority of Americans CHOOSE to fight for what they want and need instead of waiting for a hand out. This is what is going to keep America from going under. There was a time for programs such as welfare. But this has turned into an entitlement program, a "I deserve this by essence of being alive" program. When in actuality, no one deserves anything for just "existing". I am in awe of the single mother working multiple jobs in an attempt to not take money from the government. I am disgusted by the college educated person who is too prideful to take a minimum wage job to make ends meet, so they feed off of government programs. Do what you gotta do without relying on someone to help you. Same with Sandra Fluke, who insists that other people should pay for her birth control. If you want it so bad, work for it. Georgetown doesn't owe you anything but the education you pay for. They don't owe you birth control. They don't owe male students Viagra (in the spirit of being equal). The world doesn't owe you anything, Ms. Fluke. Please stop trying to convince people that it does.
All in all, this isn't an issue about religion, or even the Constitution. It is an issue of this sense of entitlement that our generation has somehow gotten lodged in our brains. People think that the deserve something. Well, according to Thomas Jefferson (a pretty intelligent person in my opinion) all that is due to us is life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Not the means to life (although in the compassion of our hearts, we choose to help provide that), not the means to liberty, (but we also have the men and women in uniforms who choose to lay their lives down for it), or the means to the pursuit of happiness. If happiness to you is to lay around and have sex all day, fine. But you are NOT entitled to birth control and you are NOT entitled to leave the child that you may conceive on the dime of the American public.
Now I am done with my rant.
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