Obama's Catholic hospital decision

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

This is absolutely asinine, and seriously concerning. What in the world does Obama think anybody gains from this decision? Its only effect is to piss people off.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

It will be a cold day in hell before I ever vote for that man. But then again it's been that way for a long time...

This will be tossed at the Supreme Court.

I sincerely hope it will be thrown out before that, since if Catholic hospitals are seriously considering not providing health coverage to their workers, well...that is really, really, really not good news otherwise.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Never met a Catholic girl who wasn't on the pill.

One of my friends is a Buddhist girl who has in the past gone off on a tangent about how hormonal birth control disagrees with her interpretation of the sutras and throws the body askew of the Middle Way. (Not a hippie Buddhist girl. Her family is Japanese and Korean.)

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Never met a Catholic girl who wasn't on the pill.

One of my friends is a Buddhist girl who has in the past gone off on a tangent about how hormonal birth control disagrees with her interpretation of the sutras and throws the body askew of the Middle Way. (Not a hippie Buddhist girl. Her family is Japanese and Korean.)

Mumbo Jumbo is gibberish in any languange.

What on Earth are you talking about?

Incidentally, her argument isn't bad at all if one accepts the tenets of the Shingon school and takes the fact that the Womb Mandala is named what it is seriously (which, in a highly esoteric and mystical school like Shingon, quite a few people do).

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

At risk of sounding like an idiot, is this new "accomodation" to make the insurance companies provide the birth control actually any different? Wouldn't they just pass the cost on back to the Catholic hospitals?

I might be misunderstanding this, but I think the cost would eventually come back to out-of-pocket. If I'm mistaken, somebody please correct me.