Time Magazine Op-Ed: Perhaps “Some Time in Jail” for Catholic Bishops Defending Religious Liberty

Catholic Vote.org ^ | 2/23/12 | John Powers

[marshmallow]

Nothing defines a modern liberal better than a opportunity to deny fundamental rights to political opponents. Case in point, a Time Magazine Ideas! Blogger Erika Christakis has some rather aggressive ones directed at Catholic Bishops

Let’s see what our society would look like if we all had the luxury of imposing our unfettered will. At a minimum, the Catholic bishops and employers resisting contraceptive coverage should be willing to pay for the care of all those unwanted children. Or perhaps they’d be willing to spend some time in jail in protest. At my taxpaying expense, of course.

Christakis, who claims some rather tenuous connections to Harvard (she is sort of Room-Mom) tells us that “Our social contract requires that we must occasionally stomach government policies that offend and outrage us”, so her suggestion…take the bait and suffer the moral consequences, or else go to jail.

[BitWielder1]

Catholic bishops and employers resisting contraceptive coverage should be willing to pay for the care of all those unwanted children.

Like these women won't get off the pill and get pregnant anytime they want to (or when they're too drunk or stoned to remember taking them) and then we have pay for those kids anyway.
When did the pill become a human right?

The libs are like children and bullies rolled into one.
What they are saying essentially boils down to:
"If you don't do what *I* want, the next stupid thing I do will be *YOUR* fault."

[bigdirty]

They want to take away your rights and when you defend yourself with your god-given right to do so, they want to take away even more of your rights.

[LibsRJerks]

Catholic bishops and employers resisting contraceptive coverage should be willing to pay for the care of all those unwanted children.

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I’ve been on some message boards lately embroiled in a fight over the Virginia abortion laws. This has been the theme of many of the liberal goons on the board ...”If you want to make abortion illegal, why don’t YOU pay, take care of these unwanted children!”

As if it’s our fault, OUR responsibility now, somehow, to pay for THEIR irresponsibility!! It’s absoutely absurd.

[Rashputin]

"She sounds a lot like the people who jailed Dr. King."

That's because it is the same people, the fascist democrat party that instituted Jim Crow and fought King every step of the way.

[WayneS]

I have read our "social contract" (i.e. The Constitution of the United States of America) many times, and I can state categorically that it absolutely does NOT contain one single clause, sentence or even a word, which could possibly, in any way, be interpreted by a sane, intelligent, person, as empowering our government to require ANYONE, whether associated with a church or not, to offer, provide or pay for someone else's contraceptive devices.

[mo]

Well ..they ARE making it official finally...that exercise of the fundamental freedoms of religion...for which the USA was established...have become the greatest “threat” to the Oligarchy

[Lazlo in PA]

This hack magazine has been pushing this secular BS for years. They are so irrelevant now that they have some low level janitor at Harvard to inject radicalism into the discussion..

[RichInOC]

Perhaps Time bloggers (or even some of the real staffers) might be cool with spending time in jail for not ratting out their sources. Or writing something somebody in power doesn’t like. No? No, I didn’t think so.

[thulldud]

That was the issue where they covered T.J.J.Altizer at Emory University, iirc.

They hadda love that headline opportunity. Stuff like that boosts those newstand sales like nobody's business.

"Is Time Dead?" Call me when the answer is YES!

[GeronL]

Time is coming soon where me might literally have no choice but to take down the government.

“Dissent is Patriotic”- what was that, 4 years ago??

[Lazlo in PA]

"Is Time Dead?" Call me when the answer is YES!

Ring Ring...

Magazine and circulation

Better Homes And Gardens 7,617,844

People 3,569,811

Time 3,298,390

One might say being under People Magazine is being dead.

[jtal]

Or perhaps they’d be willing to spend some time in jail in protest. At my taxpaying expense, of course

I have no doubt that that day is coming, and not just for the bishops.

Pray that we not be put to the test.

[thulldud]

Well, it’s not zero yet, but I imagine it never will be as long as there are libraries and doctors’ offices.

[circlecity]

Time obviously can’t grasp that there is no greater gift an ungodly unregenerate world could give a Catholic Priest or Bishop than to put them in jail for defending their Savior.

[Campion]

There is *one* greater gift ... martyrdom. That may be coming, as well.

"The blood of the martyrs is the seed of Christians" -- Tertullian.

[Pope Pius XII]

Nietzche: (spelling?) “God is dead”

God: “Nietzche is dead”