I have to tell you, when I heard the news at first, I was stupefied by it, and at the same time I was, to put it mildly, disgusted.
It seems that the State Supreme Court of California, that rotting cesspool of leftist ideologues, decided 6-1 that Catholic Charities, a non-profit foundation that does various charity work throughout the country, must offer contraceptives in its health coverage. Maybe that doesn’t sound like a big deal to most, but it really is when taken for what it is.
Remember Judge Moore? You know, the man who put a monument to the Ten Commandments (which, like it or not, are the basis of most law in this country; sorry) in the rotunda of an Alabama courthouse? Remember the outcry? The specific outcry?
There was a wall of separation between church and state, in that case.
Now what we have on our hands is a clear cut case of what that “separation” was meant for: protecting churches from the state and not vice versa. So where are all the “separationists?” Where are all the people who decried Judge Moore and his actions as religion interfering with the state, and why aren’t they outwardly offended by the blatant interference of the state with the church?
Well, don’t expect to hear any righteous indignation, or read any op-ed pieces in the liberal rags in this country. You won’t find criticism of this decision because they agree with it. There’s always this magical and mystical divide between church and state, as long as it’s perceived the church is getting the upper hand, but turn the tide and watch all those ideologues applaud.
The issue carves so many ruts into faith that it’s immeasurable. The right to free association; like-minded people working under the catholic belief system in a charity organization. The right to free practice; the right of the people running the charity to run the charity according to the belief system of the Catholic church. The right of the church to be free of interference from the state; I think that speaks for itself.
I would love to see all the Moore critics come out and say something right about now.
Of course they won’t, because this “separation of church and state” idea only matters when the idea is not popular with the left (for example putting a monument of historical significance in a courthouse rotunda which also happens to be a religious artifact) as opposed to when there really is a separation problem such as this.
It’s disturbing, but it’s something I’ve come to expect.
Next thing will be gays suing churches that refuse to marry them.
Don’t think it can happen?
Why not?