The Catholic War on Women

While I partly agree with the author of the article, I don't think the article (particularly the first paragraph) was well-written. You can do better. I could do better when I was in middle school.

Would someone please tell the Catholic Bishops to STFU! If you've been hiding under a rock for centur[ies] maybe you don't know about how little [respect?] the Catholic Church has for [w]omen. Priest[s] sworn to marry their religion and totally ignore a natural carnal need [no comma needed] have been buggering little boys instead. Meanwhile the cover-up and protection of these pedophiles all across the globe by even the current Pope [again unnecessary comma put in because your sentence is choppy] seems to have been shoved under the rug. Listen up Catholics[:] your [r]eligion is corrupt and out dated. Why should the Press or the American citizens even give a rat[']s ass about what these criminals think in the matter of [p]regnancy [p]rotection!

Now onto the substance - Catholics have the right to voice their political opinions. While the leadership is completely off-base in insisting that they not be held responsible as employers in providing decent health coverage, that doesn't mean the religion is completely awful. Most Catholics support the movement. It is just the vocal few who oppose it.

That said, Catholic institutions should do much better for women. Better health coverage. Gender equality in the workplace. Equal respect and opportunity in leadership. They need to change their ways and see women as equal to men.

It is all about power of the papacy. This is the reason that the church of Rome will never allow women into the the clerical hierarchy. Yes they have the nuns, but they are actually the second class in the clerical society. Women in this church have always been relegated to second place. I think it goes all the way back to the initial expansion northward, where they encountered my ancient ancestors, the filthy heathen, who worshiped the Goddess. They could not deal with the concept of a female deity and have been resorting to all manner of subterfuge to suppress the idea. This is not a church that is open to new ideas, after all it took them 400 years to admit that Galileo was right regarding the planets and stars.

Every monotheistic religion is old and out dated. They only have wedge issues and nothing else. There is not one religious leader of the christian path who can make a clear agrument without pushing a bigoted ideal, espically thoes who ware funny hats and long dresses.

You know there is a problem with the social psychology when we take these eunuchs seriously.

Jesus would of absolutely hated the attacks on people by those claiming to speak for God. He would of rallied against Cronie-Capitalism and the endorsement of greed. He would of wept for the destruction of paradise and the millions who die from starvation. Jesus would of been far from impressed by those who turned his cross upside down and made it into a sword.

The whole notion that god the father would send his only son is anti-women. I submit the women out there who consider themselves christians need to wake up!

From what i have read and understand , of the Jesus person , i would definitely hang out with him , i just think the church as an entity is not redeemable . It is a roman power structure , top down , and it fashions the minds in the same fascist power scheme . Historically , as times grow dark , religions play an ever stronger role , they filled the power gap in the dark ages too ... So , i am afraid for the people of the future . And sad for the Earth .

What about Catholic women? Which side are they on?

The damage done to humanity by the catholic church, especialy in ancient times is so huge and varied it almost defies description. Even today progress of the human condition is stymied by religious taboo. Lets face it they are just f#%*&#%g weird.

Christ had more respect for women than the church founded in his name does. Another great post Kennyy. +^d

Are you sure the catholic church hates women?
last time i checked, a lot of them wear dresses....

Well who is waging the war on personal freedoms known as the "drug war"?

I for one can't stand Catholicism, it came about by Constantine making a last ditch effort to keep the Roman empire from crumbling, fact... From it's inception it was a dogmatic co-opting of actual religion, to make it something palatable for the state, and watered down for the people, utter garbage.

Idk.... Why I even come here, the dumbed down inaccurate hyperbole.... All the hypocritical "our fascism is better than your fascism crap"...

How many women are being incarcerated for for contraception? How many men? How many jailed for having or preforming abortions? How many people have been denied FREE contraception if you were to go to your county health department and ASK?

NONE!!!!

We're already paying out of our tax dollars for birth control for every person who asks for it. Socialized contraception, for YEARS now. And for that I'm not even complaining, thank GOD really...

But to bitch over not only the Catholic church, but insurance providers and people not wanting more money coming out of their pockets to pay for a service that's already FREELY provided in every county I've ever heard about across this great nation?

It's fucking retarded, go to the health department and stfu, really, and "war on women" bullshit.... What about the war on people who chose to step outside the mainstream, and live free? What about all those unjustly incarcerated for harmless substances, even the harmful ones that just aren't "socially accepted" enough to be "legal".....

Bunch of dumb bullshit... Go to the health department, get your pills or condoms, stfu, and pick a cause based on something other than partisan squabbling, and being able to claim your party is in the "right".... damn children....

What kind of a God has the Catholic Church and Republicans as it's representatives?

thanks for speaking up for those that are so abused and denied their rights in so many religious country including here
vote you up

"I applaud the administration's plan to provide women with access to affordable contraception. This is about improving health care. If only the Catholic bishops would spend as much time working on the prevention of child rape as they do opposing contraception, they might be able to make a real difference."
Damn! Love that last paragraph from the article. I was born and raised Catholic but had the good sense in my teens to dump it. The Catholic church is stupid, outdated, repressive, hypocritical and punitive. They need to stay the hell out of people's lives....namely women. Do they not know "separation of church and state?" And as northernexpat wrote....why are they tax exempt? That's BS!!! As usual though, this isn't really about birth control. It's about controlling women, period.

More and more young people are leaving the Catholic Church because they refuse to keep up with the times and because of all the sex scandals that the church pushed under the rug for years.

What really gets me is that all religious organizations are tax exempt and are not suppose to be involved in politics. Remember "separation of church and state". As long as they receive these generous tax breaks, they should not be allowed to stand up in the pulpit and tell their parishioners who they should vote for.

This issue for Catholics has nothing to do with the "sanctity of life" and everything to do with "patriarchal control". They have had dominion over women's bodies for millennium and they are not going to give that up without an all out war.

".... tell the Catholic Bishops to STFU!" ? I think the Catholic women are gonna take care of that, kenny.

Amen, says the choir!

I went to Catholic School as a child and although I am grateful for the premium education that I received, it did backfire. I was not raised as a catholic so in the 7th grade, when I went to Catholic school as a girl, I was immediately struck by the treatment of women. In our particular church, girls were not even allowed to sing in the choir.

I was begrudgingly given an "A" for my religious studies because although I was vocal about my atheist status, I knew my mythology.

The Catholic church is the home of the devil.

Here's a new word for the bishop to learn:

mi·sog·y·ny   [mi-soj-uh-nee, mahy-]
noun
hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women.

Hey it's Sunday, time for a beat down of the most Bloody Church in the History of the World. With Millions of innocents blood on their hands, and hundreds if not thousands of Pedophile Priest still loose on the streets around the world, who in the hell thinks the Catholic Church has the right to any opinion in American Politics?

If I could meet with those Catholic bishops, I would tell them it would've been nice to see them get this worked up about their priests molesting children.

... and oh, by the way, where is the bishop of St. Louis? I don't see him attending your little bishop's meeting.