{"id":2163,"date":"2012-02-08T14:25:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T19:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/returntorome\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2015-03-13T13:28:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T17:28:16","slug":"ba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/returntorome\/2012\/02\/ba\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a Good Argument for the HHS Birth Control Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

In response to the new HHS regulations, about which I have written several entries (see below), some have responded b<\/a>y pointing out that most Catholics practice birth control in defiance of the teachings of their Church. I\u2019ve\"\"<\/a> got news for you: Catholics also commit adultery, lie, cheat, steal, and sometimes even become Protestant. I suspect that there are also Mormons<\/a> who drink coffee, Orthodox Jews who sneak bacon bits on their salads, and Southern Baptists who make the occasional visit to their friend Jack Daniels.<\/p>\n

However, none of these interesting and salacious facts about non-practicing believers would justify the government coercing their religious communities to underwrite adultery, lying, cheating, stealing, counter-conversions, caffeine intake, non-kosher culinary practices, or drinking hard liquor.<\/p>\n

It amazes me that otherwise intelligent people\u2013those who would clearly see the injustice of the government requiring Al-Qaeda members held at Guantanamo Bay to serve pork to non-observant Muslims\u2013cannot see the injustice of the government requiring a Church that believes it is wrong for itself to serve birth control to anyone forcing that same Church to serve birth control to everyone.<\/p>\n