Ray Flynn, the former Democratic mayor of Boston, is applauding Republican US Senator Scott Brown for calling for a “conscience exemption” from President Barack Obama’s policy on birth control coverage. “I find it outrageous that anyone in a position of public trust would trample on the conscience of people of religious beliefs,” Flynn, a former Ambassador to the Vatican, said in a letter to Brown today. He praised Brown’s “steadfast leadership” and and thanked him for his “courageous political and moral leadership.”
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lets just get it over with and rule obamacare unconstitutional
Let's just enact Universal Health Care like every other western civilized industrial nation and get it over with. For the one hundredth time, if you don't want to take contraception don't take contraception. If you are a clerk working for a Catholic institution - are you going to be so tempted by the idea of "free contraception" that you will finally succumb to the urge to try it? Will you be SSSOOOO confused by the notion that your employer is offering it, that you throw all of your church teachings out the window? Are people SSSSOOOO stupid that they can't think for themselves? Mr. Flynn, "trampling on the conscience of people of religious beliefs"??? What in God's Holy name are you talking about? Idiots.
With all due respect to Mayor Flynn, is there really anybody anywhere who cares what he thinks on this particular issue? The quote in his letter to Senator Brown reflects the same lack of incisive thought that exemplified his tenure as mayor. He has been a toady for the Vatican as long as anyone can remember. His silence about the priest abuse scandal in Boston was deafening at the time. There also a lot of us who remember him standing side by side with Louise Day Hicks when the mob was stoning the buses in Southie. Conscience....hah!
If an employer of any background can refuse to provide insurance coverage for medical treatment and medication that go against their moral or religious beliefs, as Sen Brown and Ray Flynn support, doesn't that mean that an employer that belongs to the Christian Scientist church can refuse to provide any medical treatment since their church does not believe in medical care? That is where this Blunt Amendment would have taken this. I also find it extremely humorous that the right wing is clamoring about how unconstitutional this mandate for people to buy health insurance is, when it was their idea to begin with as a way to increase the profits of private health insurance companies. Funny that.