I wonder if she is familiar with the first amendment....
At the Women in the World Summit, Clinton explained to her high-end Manhattan audience that "deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed" regarding "reproductive health care."
If Clinton is going to complain about cultural codes, perhaps she should dispense with the "reproductive health care" euphemism and just say "abortion" and "contraception." Then she should explain why she thinks she, or anyone else, has the right to dictate what religious people believe about either issue.
We know she wants to be president — but does she think she is God, too?
Like President Obama — who famously opined that Americans "cling" to religion out of bitterness — Clinton seems to view religious doctrine in opposition to her political agenda as nothing more than "biases" or "codes" to be dismantled by those who know better.
Clinton's comments echo those of The New York Times columnist Frank Bruni, who wrote this month that opposing same-sex marriage based on religious beliefs "elevates unthinking obeisance above intelligent observance,"and he argued for "freeing religions and religious people from prejudices that they needn't cling to." Bruni quoted a gay rights activist who said, "Church leaders must be made 'to take homosexuality off the sin list.' "
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/04/28/hillary-cling-religion-god-policy-column/26462609/
At the Women in the World Summit, Clinton explained to her high-end Manhattan audience that "deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed" regarding "reproductive health care."
If Clinton is going to complain about cultural codes, perhaps she should dispense with the "reproductive health care" euphemism and just say "abortion" and "contraception." Then she should explain why she thinks she, or anyone else, has the right to dictate what religious people believe about either issue.
We know she wants to be president — but does she think she is God, too?
Like President Obama — who famously opined that Americans "cling" to religion out of bitterness — Clinton seems to view religious doctrine in opposition to her political agenda as nothing more than "biases" or "codes" to be dismantled by those who know better.
Clinton's comments echo those of The New York Times columnist Frank Bruni, who wrote this month that opposing same-sex marriage based on religious beliefs "elevates unthinking obeisance above intelligent observance,"and he argued for "freeing religions and religious people from prejudices that they needn't cling to." Bruni quoted a gay rights activist who said, "Church leaders must be made 'to take homosexuality off the sin list.' "
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/04/28/hillary-cling-religion-god-policy-column/26462609/