{"id":8157,"date":"2012-12-28T19:16:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=8157"},"modified":"2012-12-28T19:18:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T19:18:29","slug":"liberty-not-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/liberty-not-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty, Not So Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/birth-control-pill-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"birth-control-pill\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/birth-control-pill-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/birth-control-pill.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>We\u2019ve heard a lot from the Roman Catholic church of late about how its \u201creligious liberty\u201d is supposedly infringed by the Obamacare \u201ccontraception mandate\u201d. It\u2019s a dodgy and unconvincing argument for any <a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/biter-bit\/\">number<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/having-eyes-see-ye-not\/\">reasons<\/a> (and hypocritical too, given the church\u2019s earlier support for universal healthcare), to which one can now add <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/daily-news\/gov.-jindal-draws-correction-from-church-for-contraception-op-ed\/#ixzz2GNEP0Wde\">this<\/a> (via the <em>National Catholic Register<\/em>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BATON ROUGE, La. \u2014 Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has voiced his support for over-the-counter access to birth control, a position that Church representatives say goes against Catholic teaching on contraception. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Archdiocese of New Orleans disagrees with Governor Jindal\u2019s stance on this issue, as the use of birth control and contraceptives are against Catholic Church teaching,\u201d Sarah Comiskey McDonald, communications director for the Archdiocese of New Orleans, told EWTN News Dec. 14. Robert Tasman, associate director of the Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishops, also echoed the archdiocese\u2019s statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Making the pill available  OTC is a <a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/on-the-economics-of-the-pill-2\/\">generally excellent<\/a> idea, but Jindal is approaching it from the perspective of a (very) devout Roman Catholic. His cannily pragmatic argument is based on the idea that making the pill available OTC will remove much (all?) of the rationale for including it under the HHS rules, but even this still is not, apparently, good enough for the Archdiocese. Note that these clerics&#8217; objection to Gov. Jindal\u2019s proposal is based on religious, not medical grounds. That their opposition to contraception is not shared by many of their coreligionists, let alone by most Americans of other faiths\u2014and none\u2014is, apparently, an irrelevance. Their ideology must be imposed on everyone, and that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<p>Remind me again why should we pay attention when this church starts talking about \u201creligious liberty\u201d. I must be missing something. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve heard a lot from the Roman Catholic church of late about how its \u201creligious liberty\u201d is supposedly infringed by the Obamacare \u201ccontraception mandate\u201d. It\u2019s a dodgy and unconvincing argument for any number of reasons (and hypocritical too, given the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/liberty-not-so-much\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[746],"tags":[491,79,909,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8157"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8165,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8157\/revisions\/8165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}