White House May Look to Compromise on Contraception Decision.

[JoeyT]

97. This isn't about respecting religion, no matter how much you insist it is.

Shall we modify all our laws to suit the religious? What about ones that use illegal substances? Do we make allowances for them? No, of course not. The drug war is far too important to compromise on.

Only when it comes to keeping women and gays in their place do we coddle religions. We were coddling them on keeping minorities in their place for a while, but we're mostly beyond that now. We'll be beyond this eventually, if people are willing to fight against it. Insisting it's about respecting religion isn't fighting against it, it's fighting to maintain the status quo.

Besides, if religion wants respect it can show that it's worthy of it. Respect isn't a given, it's earned. (And lost.) How bout they deal with their kiddy fiddlers first and the rest of us will take them a little more seriously as arbiters of morality.

No we aren't France that shits on religions, we're America that cower before them (As long as they're white and wealthy enough) and do whatever they ask as long as the subgroup they're trying to grind to dust isn't powerful enough to create a backlash. In Fascist America Religion Shits on You.