"It's Time to Quit the Catholic Church"

That's the theme of a campaign being launched by a group of atheists upset over the Church's contraception stand:

An atheist activist group is fighting the Catholic Church's "war against contraception" by stepping up its campaign that suggests believers should end their faithfulness to their religion.

The Madison, Wis.-based Freedom From Religion Foundation plans to run a full-page ad in The New York Times that states, "It's Time to Quit the Catholic Church." FFRF is conducting a fundraiser to pay for the $52,000 ad and has collected $45,000 so far, according to a chart on the group's website.

The FFRF campaign began last month in light of opposition from the Catholic Church to the Obama administration's decision that seeks to guarantee employees of church and ministry-affiliated institutions reproductive health coverage, including contraception, abortifacients and sterilization.

"Dear 'Liberal' Catholic," an open letter written by the group's co-president, Annie Laurie Gaylor, begins. "It's time to quit the Roman Catholic Church. It's your moment of truth. Will it be reproductive freedom, or back to the Dark Ages? Do you choose women and their rights, or Bishops and their wrongs? Whose side are you on, anyway?"

Gaylor called the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops' opposition to mandatory free contraception to employees of religious organizations a "ruthless campaign endangering the right to contraception."

"If you're part of the Catholic Church, you're part of the problem," she continued. "Why are you propping up the pillars of a tyrannical and autocratic, woman-hating, sex-perverting, antediluvian Old Boys Club? Why are you aiding and abetting a church that has repeatedly and publicly announced a crusade to ban contraception, abortion and sterilization, and to deny the right of all women everywhere, Catholic or not, to decide whether and when to become mothers? When it comes to reproductive freedom, the Roman Catholic Church is Public Enemy Number One."

I'm sure they'd tell you they're a tolerant bunch.  Courageous too as I'm just as sure their next target will be liberal Muslims.  Hold your breath on that one.

Though I must admit that having people like Nancy Pelosi, Kathleen Sebelius and the editors at America Magazine quit the Church has a certain appeal.

Comments

[tim aka The Godless Heathen]

These people have some problem with logic not only with this matter but with their organization in general.

They state at their website that “The purposes of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc., as stated in its bylaws, are to promote the constitutional principle of separation of state and church.” Since the constitution doesn’t specifically mention “separation of state and church” I’ll assume they’re referring to the 1st Amendment which reads -”Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”. Which basically prohibits the government from infringing on religion. Which if they could put set aside their obvious hatred for religion they would realize that this attack under the guise of “contraceptives” is exactly that.

How they decided that the Catholic church in defended itself from the government imposing on them to make contraceptives available to those it insures to be an issue of “separation of state and church” is beyond reason.

But one, including this atheist, can easily make the opposite case. That being, the government is trying to impose on the Catholic church to provide something that is against it’s values and principles. And indeed is “prohibiting the free exercise” of said religion.

For those that hold up our founding documents as examples of their existence, it’s laughable that they would sate that that contraceptives for women is a “right”. I missed that part, along with healthcare and “affordable housing” is a “right” along with the rest of the social justice crappola groups like this promote.

I would think any organization that’s been in existence for 34 years and still only has 17,000 members would maybe evaluate itself, just maybe come to a conclusion that it’s not really relevant.

You are being used, you’re nothing but useful idiots. Helping to promote the infringement of yet another example of Big government creeping into our lives. You are on the wrong side of the argument and too ignorant to realize it.

In conclusion, you don’t speak for me. Just stop already making asses out of yourselves and giving the rest of us thinking atheists a bad reputation.

[Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest]

We love ya tim!

[RandomThoughts]

"Let us be thankful for the fools (or useful idiots); but for them, the rest of us could not succeed."

The asinine ignorance of FFRF's urging people to leave the Catholic Church just proves how vital the Church truly is.