Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Soraya Chemaly: I'm No Longer a Catholic. Why Are You?

 

There are so many perspectives on the Obama/Catholic Church contraception debate that it is hard to keep track. But, after you've stripped it all of its partisanship, wonky indignation and misleading religious angst, what you are left with it whether or not you really think women are equal and how much that equality means to you personally.

At its core, this debate is about control. And not just birth control. Either you are willing to support and participate in a culture in which men, refusing to accept women as fully human, use a perverted claim of divine right to control women and their bodies, or you don't.

Click on the following for all of Ms. Chenaly’s opinion piece:  Soraya Chemaly: I'm No Longer a Catholic. Why Are You?

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Click on the following to hear her NPR interview:  http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=147980268&m=147980261

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