Andrew Sullivan's Knock out Quote about the Catholic Church on the Contraception Issue

By David Badash
The New Civil Rights Movement
February 15, 2012

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/andrew-sullivans-knock-out-quote-about-the-catholic-church-on-the-contraception-issue/politics/2012/02/15/34762


"I'm sorry but I find the protectors of child rapists preaching to women about contraception to be a moral obscenity. When all the implicated bishops and the Pope resign, ther replacements will have standing to preach."

So said Andrew Sullivan today, discussing the Church's opposition to the Obama administration's requirement that all employers — even, yes, religious ones — offer free contraception services to their employees. The updated compromise makes Obama look like the only adult in the room.

Here's the full quote:

I think the revised compromise will help him even more – and the Bishops' refusal to accept it will hurt them even more. And I think this will be particularly true among Catholics who, like me, regard abortion as far more morally troubling than contraception. Because many of us support contraception not just because we don't think non-procreative sex is a sin, but because, for fertile heterosexuals, we think it lowers the rate and risk of abortion.

If you really oppose abortion, you should back contraception, especially for those women least likely to afford it outside health insurance plans. But the new rigid fundamentalism of the John Paul II and Benedict XVI hierarchy cannot allow such moral trade-offs. But trading off the rape of children for the reputation of the church? Suddenly they get pragmatic.

I'm sorry but I find the protectors of child rapists preaching to women about contraception to be a moral obscenity. When all the implicated bishops and the Pope resign, ther replacements will have standing to preach.