President Obama was going to piss off somebody...he chose the Catholic Church. Good on 'im.

[karynnj]

19. If NJ is a battleground state, we have lost

The fact is that NJ went for Kerry in 2004, when abortion was the Church's main issue. This is birth control. If the church could not get a win, in the wake of 911 - when both abortion and gay marriage were used against a religious Catholic, I don't see it now.

I grew up Catholic in the midwest. My mom told us that when she was in college in the 1940s she horrified her Catholic friends by arguing that birth control should be ok - and that to argue that the woman should not have that choice doubts the power of God. After all, if God really really wanted someone to be pregnant, couldn't he make birth control fail? She told us this as the mother of nine kids - she wanted a big family. Most of those friends had about 3 - evenly spaced.

The Catholic church lost the issue of birth control back in the early 1960s - or likely earlier in reality. Catholics may be 23.9% of the population, but there are many of them who have no problem with birth control. Not to mention, in the entire population, it is likely that the Republicans are the ones who will have a problem if they start treating birth control like abortion. Abortion is not far from 50%, but the support of birth control is very high.