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Pennsylvania Rep. Mike Kelly (R), an ardent opponent of abortion rights, said that today's date would live in infamy alongside those two other historic occasions. Wednesday marked the day on which a controversial new requirement by the Department of Health and Human Services, which requires health insurance companies to cover contraceptive services for women, goes into effect.

"I know in your mind you can think of times when America was attacked. One is December 7th, that's Pearl Harbor day. The other is September 11th, and that's the day of the terrorist attack," Kelly said at a press conference on Capitol Hill. "I want you to remember August the 1st, 2012, the attack on our religious freedom. That is a day that will live in infamy, along with those other dates."

Mike Kelly, NBCNEWS.com 65 Comments [8/8/2012 4:21:23 AM]
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#1432120

Mudak

Let me put this in no uncertain terms: if you are opposed to sex education and contraception, then you have no right calling yourself religious. At least in theory, all religions wish to alleviate the suffering of the poor and downtrodden. By doing something that can only serve to keep people in poverty, like denying them simple and readily available services and information about sex and pregnancy prevention, then you are making poverty worse.

And if your religion makes demands of its followers that can only serve to make poverty worse, then I don't think it has much right to call itself a religion.

8/8/2012 4:27:52 AM

#1432123

Leighton Buzzard

Health insurance is a religion now? Anything for a tax dodge.

8/8/2012 4:39:59 AM

#1432127

hera

Right because you no longer have the right to not take contraceptives, you no longer have the right to speak your mind, you nog longer have the right to assembly, you no longer have the right to pray, to read the bible all because somebody might actually use a contraceptive. It is not a religious right to tell others what they can or cannot do.

But congrats on dodging Godwins Law, Pearl Harbour and 9/11 were really just as bad as someone actually taking a pill.

8/8/2012 4:49:05 AM

#1432132

Doubting Thomas

Oh whine more. Nobody has the religious freedom to refuse contraception to others. If you really cared about reducing the number of abortions like your ilk claims, then you'd welcome the idea of easily available contraception.

8/8/2012 4:56:00 AM

#1432136

Aug 1, the day you killed your career with a bad analogy.

8/8/2012 4:58:39 AM

#1432150

VoiceofKane

Yes, because comparing something where literally the only downside is that you have to spend a little bit more money in taxes can obviously be compared to two brutal attacks on the United States.

8/8/2012 5:12:00 AM

#1432151

Filin De Blanc

Religious freedom is not the same as special treatment for the religious, jackass.

8/8/2012 5:13:43 AM

#1432161

John_in_Oz

I'm pretty sure you still have the religious freedom to refuse to use contraception if you don't want it.

8/8/2012 5:33:53 AM

#1432166

ChakatBlackstar

Infamy? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

8/8/2012 5:40:18 AM

#1432167

Ebon

No-one does unearned victimhood like the Religious Right.

8/8/2012 5:40:44 AM

#1432174

LAchlan

How does....? What the.....? But....

8/8/2012 5:44:07 AM

#1432176

Mister Spak

What about the date that the southern states started their rebellion? And the day the KKK had a big march in washington? And the day three civil rights activists were murdered? And all this was done by inhabitants of red states.

The same red states who support your attack on America.

8/8/2012 5:45:28 AM

#1432189

Apatheist

YOUR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM DOES NOT EXTEND TO MAKING OTHER PEOPLE DO THINGS!

8/8/2012 6:03:52 AM

#1432190

Reynardine

Yeah. That day. Not the day in Tucson, where a Congresswoman was gunned down as she met with her constituents and her aide, a federal judge, and a nine-year- old girl were all killed. Not the more recent day in Aurora, where a gunman opened fire in a theater. Not the day shortly to follow, when Sikhs would be murdered at prayer right in Wisconsin. That day. When women could get coverage for pills, sponges, and diaphragms. Because eggs have more right to life than living people. Yet I bet the hypocrite ate them for breakfast.

8/8/2012 6:04:37 AM

#1432200

Horsefeathers

"I want you to remember August the 1st, 2012, the attack on our religious freedom. That is a day that will live in infamy, along with those other dates."

I realize you're a politician so you likely can't help it, but do try to turn down the hyperbole just a notch or two.

8/8/2012 6:30:15 AM

#1432202

Swede

Can you show chapter and verse from the Bible where it says "You may not use contraceptives"? No, Genesis 1:28 will not do as we HAVE filled the Earth already, it's now dangerously overpopulated in fact.

In what way is your religious freedom attacked? YOU still have the right to believe in whatever religion you want, and live by the rules of that religion. What you don't have is any right to force others to believe your way. Other people ALSO have the right to believe in whatever religion they want, or no religion at all, if that's what they want.

When I was a teenager and started using contraceptives that was partly paid for by our universal health care, Sweden still had a State Church, I was still sort of Christian. If a truly Christian nation like Sweden managed to do it without starting Armageddon, I'm sure America, which has had separation of church and state from day one, will be fine doing it too.

8/8/2012 6:31:09 AM

#1432204

Musicalbookworm

Help! Help! I can't oppress others!

8/8/2012 6:34:07 AM

#1432206

dionysus

If avoiding paying for insurance is a religious right then I hereby declare that my religion is against car insurance and therefore I don't want to buy any.

8/8/2012 6:34:23 AM

#1432208

Mihangel apYrs

he missed out 6 August and 9 August, 2 days when the US unleashed hellfire on 2 cities.

Regardless of the right or wrong, to forget is to forget what we humans are capable of....

8/8/2012 6:41:50 AM

#1432210

CleverScreenName

Contraception is the most reliable way to prevent abortions.

But it's not about preventing abortions, is it? Why can't you just admit you're jealous that some people are having more sex than you, so you're trying to stop them by any means possible?

8/8/2012 6:43:51 AM

#1432212

anevilmeme

The new requirement is half way there, now it needs to be expanded to cover contraception for men (as soon as a reliable male pill hits the market) as avoiding unwanted pregnancy is EVERONE'S responsibility. Plus the more it'll piss off fundtards like Kelly.

8/8/2012 6:45:16 AM

#1432218

Voice of Humanity

Oh for... honestly, the announcement of the Rise of the Triad remake couldn't have come at a better time, because I'm probably gonna have to vent some serious aggression. Relatively speaking of course. I might have to extend my sabbatical of this site, because I'm dealing with a lot of my own stuff too.

8/8/2012 6:59:30 AM

#1432226

Canadia

They took away my right to fully pay for services I'm not even using! This is WW2 all over again!

8/8/2012 7:30:49 AM

#1432227

tmarcl

Like others have said, how, exactly, are you being harmed by this? Just because contraceptives are covered by health insurance doesn't mean you have to use them. Just like the legalization of abortions doesn't require you to have one.

8/8/2012 7:33:22 AM

#1432231

Mayhem

You mean like the day I got my first job and had to pay taxes, which then went to supporting the infrastructure that allows churches to operate, even though they never have to pay taxes for them, thus effectively forcing me to subsidize these churches' operations?

8/8/2012 7:39:21 AM

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