I found a little tid bit of heresy in this following editorial in the quotation of a bishop in the below remarks.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-end-of-the-catholic-church-as-we-know-it/2012/03/09/gIQAB1jx5R_story.html
In his diocesan newspaper, Cardinal Francis George, archbishop of Chicago, wrote: “The provision of health care should not demand ‘giving up’ religious liberty. Liberty of religion is more than freedom of worship. Freedom of worship was guaranteed in the Constitution of the former Soviet Union. You could go to church, if you could find one. The church, however, could do nothing except conduct religious rites in places of worship — no schools, religious publications, health care institutions, organized charity, ministry for justice and the works of mercy that flow naturally from a living faith. All of these were co-opted by the government. We fought a long Cold War to defeat that vision of society.”
This is heresy. Heresy involves the idea that you can not get what you want when you are supposed to get what you deserve. In reality, the truth lies in the fact that what you want is what you are going to get when your G-d wants you to have it.
I have an issue with the concept that your provisions of health care would demand giving up religious liberty.
Religious liberty is the right you have to believe and work and do what you wish within the confines of democracy and the civil law and order.
In reality, religious liberty does not involve taking eggs out of one basket and putting them in another.
So thus, when there is no constitutional issue with delivering health care and the law does not impede the health care to be delivered, it does not interfere with health care issued religious liberties to offer the services to the public that you are not involved with offering your own future presence in their own lives or in their homes.
In essence, the idea that you can not fund birth control needs of the population because your faith does not agree that their own children should be using this measure does not coincide with the adequacy of your own presence in the nation that you are being fortunate to be able to practice your own liberties of religious freedom.
If you have religious freedom and it is done under the auspices of a nation at large, you need to consider that the nations programs are in your interest to support and fund when it is a democracy.
When there is a national issue that involves all of the people in the nation such as birth control and that does not coincide with your religious argument and belief, you may choose to vote against the measure. You may not exempt yourself from the funding of the measure just because it is your church's reason to do so. This is a national debate and this involves voting.
If you choose to absolve yourself from the responsibility shared by other citizens from the entire scheme of the civil way of this nation, you are going to have to concede that you can no longer participate in this democracy at the level of a primary and first sourced citizen in the effect that the entitlements and work of this nations people is not going to be able to be offered to you at the same amount or the same priority as the rest of the community.
There is a group called the Amish that disavow the idea of using and paying into a social security system.
They do not pay into social security and they are not eligible for benefits.
This befits their religious liberty in that it is their choice to abstain from an American Foundation and Freedom.
Health care is a different story.
Health care is a place of respect for ones self.
Social Security is respect for your future.
In truth, our needs to be self respecting citizens outweigh our needs to preserve our religious integrity.
It is a fact that there is a consideration that self medicating with birth control by ones own choice and the discretion of a physician is a personal matter but that it trips perhaps on the ultimate governing structure of human survival as a pure soul based on the dictates and mandates of religious success in the true world and perhaps there may be a consequence in the world to come.
Either way, there is a religious remidy that is dictated by a higher power as we choose futures of pathways of justice and righteousness.
In all, G-d is in control.
If you do not believe that G-d is in control, then your church needs to be in control.
So there in lies the heresy.
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