If Catholic-Provided Free Birth Control is Required, is Free Sex Far Behind?

COMMENTARY | One of the interesting aspects of the imbroglio over requiring the Roman Catholic Church to provide employees of hospitals, schools, and charities it runs with birth control is how the two sides of the political divide regard rights.

Conservatives hearken to the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights that enumerates the number of things the government must not do. The government must not restrict freedom of speech, of the press, to practice religion, and to keep and bear arms. The Supreme Court decision in the case of Griswold v. Connecticut guaranteed the right of women to access contraception unfettered by any government.

Liberals, on the other hand, regard rights as things that the government must guarantee. The government should guarantee education, health care, food, and — as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is quoted as suggesting in the Weekly Standard — birth control.

There is the difference. Before, after Griswold, women had the right to have contraceptives. Now, according to the radical left, women have the right to have it given to them free of charge.

The question arises, if the role of the government is to give us free stuff or to make sure someone else gives us free stuff, where does it end?

For instance, should a grocery store by required to give people free food by government fiat, uncompensated?

If it is the position of the Obama administration that people and institutions should be required to give free stuff to anyone who wants it, then in the spirit of Jonathon Swift, I have a modest proposal. This is somewhat related to the birth control mandate.

I propose (with tongue thoroughly in cheek) that people should be required by the government to give away free sex to whoever needs it. After all, next to the need for oxygen, food, and drink, the need for intercourse is primal.

Does this go against your religious convictions? That is what those stuffy Catholics are saying about birth control. You should not be allowed to deprive anyone from having sex with religious freedom as an excuse.

You’re happily married and do not believe in adultery? Also quite quaint. This whole idea of marital fidelity is so red neck and red state and really has no place in the modern world.Just ask Bill Clinton.

The guy or girl is ugly, smelly, gross, fat, the wrong age, the wrong gender, just not appealing, and wants to do disgusting things? You do realize that discrimination is politically incorrect and against the law.

The whole idea sounds outrageous, which it certainly is. However Robert Silverberg once published a novel, entitled “The World Inside,” about a future civilization where women were required to give away their sexual favors to whomever knocked on their door and asked for it.

So beware. If we choose to go down this road, we might not like where it leads.

Source: Griswold v. Connecticut, Cornell University Law School

Pelosi: Govt. Should Require Church To Pay for Birth Control, John McCormack, The Weekly Standard, Feb 16, 2012

The World Inside, Robert Silverberg, Orb Books, 2nd Edition edition, 2010


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