Democrats claim Republican’s opposition to the contraception mandate would return America to the dark ages

  Late last night Senator Blunt added an amendment to the federal highway reauthorization bill which would undo Barack Obama’s proclamation that religious institutions and charities which offer their employees heathcare insurance be forced to carry plans which offer free birth control.

  Before I get to the subject matter at hand let me first state that I am opposed to Senators and Congressmen adding unrelated amendments to pending legislation, all amendments added to pending legislation should be related to that legislation. An amendment which is not related should be introduced as new legislation and should be debated on its own merits. I firmly believe that if Republicans want to overturn Barack Obama’s contraception proclamation it should be done in a separate bill, but that is the subject of another post so onto the issue at hand.

  The Blunt amendment has been met with sharp criticism from many Democrats, who have declared that the Blunt amendment would return America to the dark ages:

Republicans would have  us go back to the medical dark ages,” said Sen. Boxer

The GOP agenda gives women one option: barefoot and pregnant

  So the Republicans want to return to the dark ages of three weeks ago before the president decided to trample the first amendment and dictate to churches what their moral obligations to women should and will be. I had no idea we were living in the dark ages a few short weeks ago, thankfully Barack Obama has saved us before Republicans start sentencing people to the guillotine.

  Only in the minds of the Democrats could a president of the United States meddle in the affairs of the church, contrary to the constitution, and dictate to the church how they must operate and defend that president only to ridicule Republicans when they come to defence of the constitution. But that is exactly what is happening; The Democrats are painting the Republicans as the radical ones for wanting to uphold the separation of church and state that Democrats supposedly hold dear when they are removing all references to God, and all religious displays from public property, yet they do not find it radical for the president to break through the wall of separation between the church and state that Thomas Jefferson made infamous in his letter to the Danbury Baptists in 1802. Something is amiss here, the hypocrisy is palpable.

  It would seem to me that it is Barack Obama and the Democrats who are returning America to the dark ages before the constitution when the king was the sole arbitrator of religious “freedom.” We have a president of the United States who feels it is justifiable to tell religious organizations what they must do to meet the requirements of the government, and yet it is the Republicans who want to bring America back to the dark ages?

  And while we are on the subject let me ask you this: Which party is it whose welfare policies reward single, non-working mothers for having more children by providing them with more money for each child born? It would seem to me that the policies of the Democrats and their welfare state which actually disincentive many women from working and marrying and encourages them to remain barefoot and pregnant to ensure more “free” money roll in. This in itself is a type of bondage.

  I heard Scott Brown on two Boston radio talk shows today and he made the claim that during the Obamacare debate is was actually none other than Ted Kennedy who fought for the conscience clause to ensure religious organizations were exempt from any contraception mandate, going to far as to write to the pope and promise him the church’s religious belief would not be violated.

  So I guess this means Democrats feel Ted Kennedy is a man who wanted to return America to the dark ages and ensure that women remained barefoot and pregnant also. (Considering the vicious attack that Ted Kennedy led on Robert Bork many years ago, the irony is not lost on me!)