Why I Can Have Butt-Sex While Killing My Baby

Last month, President Obama unveiled his mandate that would require all employers to cover birth control in their employee's medical coverage. The Catholic Church, which has many types of businesses, became enraged and stated that President Obama was attacking the Catholic church. President Obama then came out with a compromise. The compromise was that religious institutions  were exempt from offering birth control but, at the mother's request, they would have to perform an abortion in the event of rape, incest, or physical harm to the mother (mom would die in child birth situation). The Catholic church did not accept the compromise and demanded that the mandate be repealed.

Let's forget the fact that only 5% of the organizations affected were Catholic. Religious institutions are always trying to prevent the government from passing laws that that church doesn't agree with. Birth control, abortions, stem-cell research, and gay marriage are just some of the hot topics right now in America. As far as the US government is concerned, they should allow all of them. Why? I'm glad you asked you strange person that talks to computer monitors.

Between the years of 1629 and 1640 a religious group called the Puritans (Pilgrims)  first came to America to escape their persecution in England by Catholics because they didn't share the same beliefs as the majority. They wanted a land where they were free to worship or not worship any God of their choosing. This idea stayed with early Americans until the drafting of the US Constitution some one hundred years later. The Founding Father made it very clear that they did not want any one religion governing the people and that Americans would be free to praise whomever without fear that they would be punished or treated unfavorably by their own government. This idea was echoed again in 1960, at a time when Catholicism was looked at similar to how we view Mormons today, when the then Catholic Senator John F. Kennedy stated in his historic speech that their must be a clear separation between Religion and State in America.

JFK Speech in 1960

This means that no one religion can make laws that dictates the lives of every American. I know that there are many reason one might say that abortions and gays shouldn't get married, but the number one reason is clearly Christianity. "Gays can't get married because the Bible states that in the end times (Revelation) two people of the same sex will have sexual relations". "You can't get an abortion or use birth control because a child is a blessing from God and God doesn't make mistakes". What if a person doesn't believe in God? What if a person's God is different from your God? These arguments would hold no substance to them and they are very well within their rights to believe in whatever they want.

Christianity is the de facto religion of America (78.4%). Always has been. It is not; however, the only religion in America. And by having laws that don't allow two people to be together because of a religion says it's wrong is wrong in itself. If you were a Christian woman living in a Kuwait, would you like to forced to wear a Burka because that's what the Muslim women do? Some of the worst atrocities in history have taken place because a majority imposed it's will on a minority. The Holocaust occurred because Christian Hitler hated those of Jewish faith. The Ottoman Empire (Turkey) in 1915 killed 1.5 million Armenians because the Turks viewed them as "second-class" citizens. Saddam Hussein on March 16, 1988 killed 5000 of his own people because they weren't the same type of Muslim he was.

Photo of the dead after the Attack of Saddam Hussein  on the people he was supposed to protect

This is foundation for America that we are laying right now. I am a Christian hetero-sexual man. Two gay people is not ideally what I would like to see, but who am I to tell someone else how to live their life? Who are we to tell a woman that she can't take birth control and she has to keep the child should she become pregnant? This is exactly what we are doing. We are telling someone else how to live their lives when we ourselves don't even know how to live our own.

The Christian Church should not be looking at the fact that certain things that they don't agree with are available, but they should be striving that much more to ensure that its followers don't take advantage of them. You should scold the person who sniffs paint; not the company who makes it. Don't scream at the government for providing a service; scream at your members for using it.


Hey guys thanks for reading and I hope we can spend time again tomorrow. MLK

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