John Kerry

this entire situation has horrified me. I guess I am a secular minded person, and don't feel that religious organizations should be granted so much power. The Republicans are still pushing this issue (seriously, how is being against birth control good politics?), so we'll see how nuts this country is in the upcoming polls and ultimately in November. I think the onus is on "Moral objectors" to explain HOW birth control is immoral given that 99% of American women and 98% of American Catholic women have used them throughout the course of their lives. I think religious "objections" should be as rigorously debated as any ideologue's objections. In this case, they fail the test immediately and should have been laughed out of the public square. Saying "it's my religion" is not a good enough reason to skirt the law.

Digby has some good posts up about this, particularly this one:

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/one-more-thing.html

I think the power structure described in the post clearly have a lot of sway over John Kerry as well.