For example, the issue of birth control!
Right-wing conservatives like Rick Santorum believes that states can & should be able to ban not only abortion, but other contraceptives as well!
Right-wing conservatives like Rick Santorum won't be happy until the USA becomes the Christian version of Iran, Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan
Meanwhile, many left-wing liberals like Barack Obama believe in FORCING EMPLOYERS to provide insurance coverage relating to birth control! EVEN RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS that DON'T BELIEVE IN birth control are FORCED to provide insurance coverage for stuff THAT GOES AGAINST THEIR RELIGION!
Look, I am VERY PRO-CHOICE when it comes to abortion, and contraceptions. While I understand why some people dislike abortion, I HAVE NOTHING BUT CONTEMPT for religious fanatics who block entrance to abortion clinics and scream vicious insults towards women who are trying to enter those clinics!
I also have pointed out that yes, many anti-abortion protestors END UP GETTING ABORTIONS TOO!
http://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2009/11/even-anti-abortion-protesters-have.html
But the left-wing liberals are also wrong in demanding religious institutions be forced to provide coverage of things they don't believe in!
So if the Catholics don't believe in contraception, they shouldn't be forced to provide coverage for that!
In fact, the left-wing liberals are making their version of "perfect" the enemy of the good! By forcing Catholic hospitals to provide contraceptives, they might just SHUT DOWN rather to go against their religious beliefs. Then there's less people to provide any form of health care!
Just like we shouldn't force Mormon insitutions to serve alcohol, nor should we force Jewish and Muslim insitiutions to serve pork!
It's called FREEDOM OF RELIGION!
If the left-wing liberals want to provide more birth control, they already have Planned Parenthood. They could also align themselves with liberal-leaning churches (ie, Unitarians, Quakers, United Church of Christ, etc) to start their own hospitals!
Cathy Young has said it best
http://reason.com/archives/2012/02/13/obamas-misguided-birth-control-mandate
Some of the "war on religion" rhetoric emanating from the right has been over the top. When religious institutions perform extensive secular functions -- often with government subsidies -- and serve nonbelievers, they inevitably surrender part of their religious autonomy. (A Catholic hospital, for instance, cannot require that all babies born in its maternity wards be baptized into the Catholic faith.)
The issue is where the line should be drawn; and, for many Americans, that line is crossed when Catholic institutions such as hospitals, schools and charities—with a narrow exemption for churches—are forced to buy employee insurance policies that cover services prohibited by Catholic teachings. Catholics who use contraception, and Protestants who have little sympathy for the Catholic Church's anti-birth-control stance, may still be offended by the state dictating to the church in such matters.
President Obama has picked the wrong fight. Rather than expand birth control options for women, this policy may undermine already shaky support for the health reform legislation. Suddenly, predictions that ObamaCare will result in less freedom and more bureaucratic authority do not seem so outlandish.
