Religion
In reply to the discussion: A tentative win for religious liberty in Obamacare lawsuit [View all]LeftishBrit
(41,205 posts)Look at these articles, from 2010 about Europe, and from 2012 about America:
http://blogs.ajc.com/kyle-wingfield/2010/05/07/the-social-rot-of-greece-and-the-politics-of-dependence/
http://blogs.ajc.com/kyle-wingfield/2012/12/11/yes-anti-poverty-programs-do-keep-some-people-poorer-than-they-should-be/
As far as I am concerned, anyone who - especially at a time of recession and mass unemployment - treats the problem of poverty as mainly one of 'dependency'; anyone who treats most anti-poverty programmes and most social welfare as morally corrupting; anyone who endorses the likes of Charles 'Bell Curve' Murray; anyone like that is NOT A HUMAN BEING; it is a POISONOUS SNAKE.
I know that I am probably regarded both on this forum and the I/P forum as fairly tolerant, or wishy-washy according to point of view, but on issues relating to the social safety net, and the need for public services, and opposition to harshness toward poor or vulnerable people and especially treating their problems as moral failings - I am not tolerant at all! I have ZERO TOLERANCE for the hardline economic right, and it goes down to negative numbers when they try to justify their vile views on moral grounds!
Should this horrible individual really get space on DU?
As regards this particular article: as far as I am concerned, anyone who actively opposes contraception IS part of the war on women, whether they do so on religious grounds, or on nationalistic grounds e.g. Ceaucescu of Romania. I can understand people who genuinely think that abortion is murder; but opposing contraception seems to be generally seeking to control women, either in the name of 'traditional values or of increasing the population of a particular country or demographic. And most Catholics nowadays do accept contraception in practice- it is a particularly hardline group of Catholics, and some hardliners of other faiths, that strictly oppose it.
I suppose if you choose to go to a college which opposes contraception, you know what you're getting into; but still, argh!