Obama claiming authority over God

Very interesting conflict over HHS claiming that the Catholic church has to provide its employees health insurance that pays for birth control pills and the like. Given that the Catholic church is totally against birth control, abortion, etc etc. on moral grounds.

Let's go back to the central idea behind the establishment of the United States of America. The main idea was that this nation is based on individual rights, most notably the capability of the individual to "live by your own lights."

It's because of this principle that we have democratic elections and the Bill of Rights, particularly the First Amendment, which claims "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or the free exercise thereof."

So, apparently that's no longer true if your view of morality and your decisions based on those views conflict with the dictates of socialized medicine.

That is to say, the authority of the government now supercedes the authority of the church?

The government makes all of our moral and all other decisions now. And the church is just some place to socialize on Sundays?

The leftists say women have a "right" to birth control, abortions, etc. And we all have a "right" to health care.

I can't agree with a "right" that enslaves the providers of such services. How does that work? If you become a doctor, you're opting to be a slave to the state -- or to anyone who claims to need your services? Hosptials are what? They fall from the sky to house and administer to the sick?

Where, exactly, does this "right" come from?

It's not a right. It's a privilege, and a quite dear one -- in terms of being the  product of a highly evolved science and technology. We aren't born with this. This doesn't occur in nature. This is manufactured by human beings, just like cars or shoes or Ferris wheels. How can you have a "right" to this?

And how can the stupid socialist in the White House compel the Catholic church to go along with his stupid program?

Is the Comrade now a moral authority over God? The Comrade knows better than the Pope what's right and wrong?

Please....

Look, I'm not even religious and this makes me just enraged. Just who the hell does this asshole think he is?

Save the Republic.