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underpants

(182,863 posts) Fri Jul 4, 2014, 10:01 AM Jul 2014

Illinois Clergy Protest SCOTUS Ruling By Giving Out Condoms At Hobby Lobby

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/clergy-protest-hobby-lobby-condoms

A reverend in Illinois organized a demonstration to hand out condoms outside of a local Hobby Lobby store in order to protest the Supreme Court's ruling on contraception, the Daily Herald reported.

Rev. Mark Winters of the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Naperville, Ill., said it started out as a joke in a Facebook, but after he got a great response, he decided to organize a protest.

The group of demonstrators stood outside the store to hand out condoms donated by Planned Parenthood.

Winters told the Daily Herald that he wanted the protest to show that not all Christians oppose birth control. He also said he hoped to get people to question whether the Supreme Court's decision was fair to Hobby Lobby employees' religious freedom.

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Illinois Clergy Protest SCOTUS Ruling By Giving Out Condoms At Hobby Lobby (Original Post) underpants Jul 2014 OP

Hee hee shenmue Jul 2014 #1

The UCC is often on the vanguard, they have been early and courageous allies over the years Bluenorthwest Jul 2014 #2

The Irony! whateyethynk Jul 2014 #3

shenmue

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1. Hee hee

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Fri Jul 4, 2014, 10:12 AM

Jul 2014

Bluenorthwest

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2. The UCC is often on the vanguard, they have been early and courageous allies over the years

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Fri Jul 4, 2014, 10:15 AM

Jul 2014

Rev. Winters is a creative guy!

whateyethynk

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3. The Irony!

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Sun Jul 13, 2014, 01:23 PM

Jul 2014

From the same article: "You can make the religious freedom argument, you can make the argument about contraception, but ultimately, for me, this is about power,' he said....

...'Jesus had a lot of issue with powerful people using power over the powerless."

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Hobby Lobby's case was presented to the Supreme Court by a group called The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.

Does anyone else see the irony in the name The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty? Why is it that these conservative Christians think liberty is their exclusive moral right?

A church that chooses exclusion over inclusion and, as the Rev. White said, chooses to wield power over the powerless, is not following the teachings of the Jesus I learned about in Sunday School. It is a cult of close-minded people, blind to their own fallacy and deaf to those who would point out their purposeful self-deception.

More @ http://whateyethynk-politics.blogspot.com/2014/07/eye-recommend-local-clergy-hand-out.html

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