Justinian I,

"Which is what this Obama thing is about."

The "Obama thing" is about employees of these religious institutions and the healthcare provided, not the services rendered with the tax money. The government is saying hey, you have the infrastructure, provide these services for us k plz thnx. Then they're saying the Catholic church has to provide their employees with birth control and such, because they took government contracts. It's not like they're being paid to offer birth control then aren't offering birth control. They're not reneging on contracts, they're saying they'll offer whatever healthcare they're morally comfortable with to their employees, as is their right.

It's a non-issue and entirely politicized bullshit, since birth control is cheap and nobody has the right to have it provided for them by anybody. Nobody's rights are being violated by the Church not providing birth control in most circumstances.

I do agree that the government generally shouldn't be funding these institutions. Favoring any religious institution over others can easily be seen as an establishment of religion of sorts and infringement upon the free exercise of others.

Unfortunately, the Catholic Church has proven itself better at running hospitals than most idiot bureaucrats. So we're stuck with government working with them, or with a deterioration of services available to the public. I'm not exactly upset that I can't get contraception and abortions from them, however. Lots of government money is already dedicated to killing the children of minorities. So long as this is true and these services are available from other government-sponsored entities, even those minorities set on killing their kids aren't harmed by Catholic policy of not being okay with that.

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That doesn't make any sense. Have you ever read the Constitution? Do you know anything of history?

Why all the hating on free speech of late? Of course religious institutions have certain moral views. Of course they're talking about it.

The law and reality have never held xeno back before. Don't crush the kid's dreams, corporate slave!

Oh god it's so pathetic. Because he really wants that money to go toward his campaign, not gifts and merriment. His campaign is just too important. Everyone should give things up in order to support it. If only we did things more like the Soviets...

Edit: Love the comments.

"This is THE WORST GIFT you could EVER get someone"

"You know it is really bad when you wouldn't even give it as a gag gift."

"Is this what the office of the President of the United States has come to? Pandering for wedding and birthday money?"

"Why not? He's already tried to pander for cash via 20+ "sweepstakes".... This is just more of the same tackiness."

"Can't wait to see the death notices with, "In lieu of flowers...""

"So when is he going to ask people to will over their estates to his campaign or was that last week?"

"No, he just wants to tax them out of existence."

"Their estates...??? I'm just waiting for my first born and left kidney to be asked to be donated to "The Cause." What a joke of a prez."

"That's next and then there is complete confiscation of all private prop."

"I'll be sure to send whatever is left over after I pay off my $138,000 Nat'l Debt Per Taxpayer."

"I could not agree more with you! 0BOMBa is spending money like a drunken sailor but at least the drunken sailors are spending their own money."

"What a freaking joke... In lieu of birthday, graduation, wedding gifts, etc., make a donation to Barack Obama's campaign in my name? This is the most absurd thing to come out of his mind to date. What a bunch of ignorant arrogant douch-bags. Sorry to offend real douch-bags but this idiocracy has got to stop."

"You've just insulted ignorant, arrogant douche-bags everywhere! :-D"

"Does it bother you that the majority of America wants your candidate out of office as soon as possible?"

"HEY LIBS,,,,,, Did Valery Jarrett make her daughter give up all the gifts at her wedding last week ?"

"This is sad, sad, sad. My heart is seriously crying here."

"Desperate, classless AND tasteless. Grats on the three-fer."

"Who is his campaign manager? Mel Brooks? This is better than the Producers."

"Don't insult Mel Brooks by associating him with this train-wreck. But it certainly smacks of his humor, even though the folks running his campaign are humorless lefty propagandists."

"Please take this embarrasment down as soon as posible...please...from someone who used to be proud he grew up with a Democrat mother and Republican father...now I am ashamed my family was ever associated with the Democrats."

"My mother has voted Democrat since 1960. This year she won't."

hahahahahahahaha that one's great.

I have no knowledge of what you're talking about.

Oh, you found documents? Oh, well they're privileged. But I assure you there's NOTHING in them that suggests I'm a lying sack of shit. You want to see them to confirm this? No, you can't.

I love how half of the people posting here don't understand the statistical significance of miscarriage vs stillborn which is relevant.

Einstein,

I pwnt him. It's clear. It's indisputable. You're just giving yourself a -1 here by incorrectly calculating the score!

Zarf BeebleBrix,

You didn't deny that what I said is TRUE!

I only occasionally correct Einstein (it's literally happened once or twice in other cases) because he claims to be legitimately running for office, yet has trouble with the concept that "you are" and "your" mean different things. I'm just trying to be helpful. If somebody sent me campaign information which mixed up the two, I'd probably wipe my butt with it.

You're just deflecting from the point. You've been OOOOOOOOOOOWNED! OH SNAP! I'M SO HARDCORE! FORUM POSTS ARE BADASS! W00T W00T!

Thanks for leaving the "Blow me." in there.

I don't really have anything else to say. I appreciate that you left that message unadulterated. <3

Sex work isn't legal in the US. You bring up a whole other legal issue.

"This is not a court of law, or a publication.  I refer to it as slander."

Just letting you know, buddy. This is a forum filled with dumb, cocky kids. Nothing personal. I'm not implying anything. Just being helpful. No offense intended. I could care less if you know the difference.

"The libelous statements you have made should get you banned by mods."

They'd have to do their research in order to responsibly consider that option. Since I'm being honest and you're lying, my being banned is a very unlikely result. Regardless, they don't give a damn about some idiot kid whining--with good reason, life's too short--and your appeals to authority won't help you.

I think thou doth protest too much. I can read and have a pretty good memory. Blow me.