Monday, May 6, 2019

When health care rules are updated, both sides just start attacking

When health care rules are updated, both sides just start attacking
The Church's rights to freedom of worship do not overcome the rights to individuals to be left alone regarding contraception and abortion under the 9th and 14th Amendments. Weldon applies to individual hospitals, not to states. Employees also have rights superior to the free exercise if they are ministry and if one type of civil marriage (homosexual) is punished while the other type (heterosexual) are both against doctrine but treated differently.

This is not a liberal or even a libertarian issue - this is about basic deistic natural rights, which are not the same thing as Catholic natural law. The latter cannot be opposed because it privileges the papacy in its interpretation, especially if the papacy is wrong.  It should recognize that monogamous homosexuality is not evil, that doomed fetuses have no moral right to endanger their mothers by forcing her to carry the pregnancy to term, that contraception is not killing a person (life begins at gastrulation) and married sexuality is outside their competency.

The Church is trying to have it both ways on Dignitatis Humanae. They either recognize freedom of civil conscience or they don't. While no doctor can be forced to perform a procedure, paying for it is so remote from any insurance coverage that there is no justification for withholding it, just as their is no justification for abstaining from federal funding because the nation allows abortion. Either way, this issue is good for fundraising on both sides, although it is evil for the Church to carry the water for the Republicans because of it.

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