Hopefully Tim Thomas will be successful in blocking Obama from scoring on this violative health care mandate.

Oh wonderful. Tim Thomas dives in. In two weeks, from Mr. Gadsden Flag, "I'm not going, but it's not political, I just think gummint's too big"... to a NAZI REFERENCE! Really?!? Are you serious you stupid millionaire jock? Go back to your net. (Nice Sabres game BTW). Not political my Fat Aunt Sally. I have to quote the late Molly Ivins "It's not true that all conservatives are stupid. It is true that most stupid people are conservative." And boy is Thomas stupid. Look Tim, you take a paycheck. There are certain obligations. Practice. Eat right. Suit up. Play on your nights. Sit on your off nights. You fail those obligations, you lose the check. The poor oppressed Catholic Church (not "Catholics", Tim) wants to run hospitals that operate as secular institutions , or universities, or any other enterprise that accepts subsidies from the Big Bad Gummint, has to accept the secular rules. See how that works? No? Like I said, stupid dumb jock.

No one is required to use birth control; Protestant, Catholic or Jew. And no employer is allowed to treat anyone differently from anyone else when it comes to health insurance; Protestant, Catholic, or Jew. Seems reasonable to me.

This practice is in violation of the Constitution; you cannot keep services from some people while others get the benefit. It is not a war on religion; in fact, the war is against the government by religion, especially Catholics and right-wing evangelists - not all but those who keep bringing their religion(s) to bear on all of us relentlessly. The churches and their well-paid attack machines should shut up, minister to the poor and the sick and be happy they're not paying taxes on their wide-spread tax-exempt holdings. If they want to stick their noses into the secular world, start taxing them - that was the deal they struck a long time ago. They broke the pledge now their constant nagging about anything the government does should result in them paying their fair share - they get government subsidies and they never complain about that.

I think Tim Thomas should stick to hockey, especially given how poorly he played last night. I also think that American Catholics need to take their church away from these out-of-touch bishops.