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23. This is why religion needs to be completely cut out of politics.

Reply to Found in Yonkers (Original post)

Tue Jan 31, 2012, 04:04 PM

Jan 2012

Access to birth control is one of the most important hallmarks of an advanced society. The religious beliefs of a few should be allowed to bar this necessity from American society.

I know that it has become a cliche to say that the only purpose of religion is to control people, but can anybody doubt that here? This narrow cabal of old men with a hysterical attitude toward sex thinks they can bully the rest of us back into the Dark Ages. This impulse and effort to control the private lives of others is appalling. The men of the Enlightenment believed that the priest and the king would suffer simultaneous deaths. We are free of the tyranny of kings, but the blight of the priesthood remains. How much longer?

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