“...and I’m a third year student at Georgetown Law, a Jesuit school”
And she wants the heavy hand of government to force said Jesuit school to do something against its institutional conscience.
This has morphed into a ‘women’s rights’ issue...when it should be a freedom of religion issue.
And somehow the dialogue has become ‘the Republicans are trying to take away a woman’s rights’....when it really should be ‘the catholic church is defending itself’. And make no mistake, the catholic church is not a part of the vast rw conspiracy. It can be very liberal - and it is having a disagreement with liberals.
How did the GOP end up on the defensive on this?
This has morphed into a distraction at a critical time. The idea that Obama called her is sooooo repulsive. He’s one sicko.
Many private Christian schools (k-12) have pre marital sex listed, among drug use, etc, as terms for dismissal. A certain behavior is expected by the student body. Do private universities not hold similar standards? At least this school, if it did, could simply dismiss her for publicly admitting her pre marital relations.
I believe it is the same as the abortion decision in 1973. There were moves behind the scenes for years to usher cases through the courts to get it to the Supremes where sympathetic judges were waiting to overturn abortion laws, and the media was ready to tout the victory for women.
I believe that the Democrat party, along with its public policy groups, and their media allies, have been working on this for a few months. They needed an issue that would take the voters' focus off the sorry economic state of the country. When HHS made public the decision against religious organizations, and the Bishops pushed back against it, because they had been told the mandate wouldn't apply to religious organizations, the media was ready to attack.
The MSM had already started going after Republicans, because of the pro-life stands of the Presidential candidates, and especially Santorum and Newt, because they're Catholic. I'm sure the Republicans were confused as to why they were even being asked about this, because none of them has ever demanded that birth control not be available. They were not prepared for the attacks that have come, and are definitely trying to play catch up on this issue.
The dean of Georgetown had a perfect opportunity to defend the school and the church and wimped out. He defended her right to politicize the issue as a women’s rights matter instead.
My alma mater, a Jesuit University, has become a bastion of liberalism. I don’t support it anymore and will no encourage my grandchildren to attend.