This week I had brought home to me that we must be progressive in our thinking and moderate in our speech.
We progressives and Democrats have been celebrating the outcome of the contraception controversy.
We are proud of our president and hopeful about his overcoming the hate machine.
We are resentful of religious intrusion on civil life, and properly vocal on intrusion in our bedrooms and bodies.
We are outraged about the ignorance of health implications, and the obsession with religious objections.
If we see the big picture, the solution to this controversy was 2 words: single payer.
And that's what I said to a friend, a former county Dem chair, who was emotional and offended at a meeting this week.
The president was moderate in his statements on the subject and in his compromise solution.
We may feel strong emotions and need to vent, but we must be moderate in statements and conversations.
Otherwise we will walk into a trap as surely as the Santorums of this world.
We need Catholic Democrats to know we are not hostile to their faith.
Catholics are the democratic core in small towns and rural areas all over this country.
Jesus was a liberal; it's in the Sermon on the Mount.
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Daniel Giallombardo commented
2012-02-17 20:16:49 -0600
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I may be wrong here,but even as a N/P Catholic I’m offended by the position of the Catholic Church in this. The Pope is willing to allow gays to use protection against AIDS, but not willing to allow the rest of his world wide congregation to do so. The church is willing to criticize the government, but let government criticize the church….the broooha over birth control being paid for by insurance companies is a perfect example of the GOP spinning things way out of control. No one is being forced to accept any birth control devices. The prevalent idea on conservative talk shows seems to be something along the line of since the insurance policy covers chemo treatments we MUST get cancer. The opportunity is there you need not avail yourself of it. Or at least that’s the view out of MY office window….
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