tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753966905311105194.post6430699287622340475..comments2023-07-27T04:48:58.724-06:00Comments on A Suburban Princess Speaks: Warning: Political Rant to Follow!Korkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05632044893399164839noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753966905311105194.post-76857647922634096022012-03-09T19:06:01.079-07:002012-03-09T19:06:01.079-07:00I agree with what you have said.
I believe you and...I agree with what you have said.<br />I believe you and others like you would do this country a great deal of good.Queen Motherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16652082809249949753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753966905311105194.post-81322297973936650652012-03-09T16:26:44.789-07:002012-03-09T16:26:44.789-07:00I have issues with anyone believing that the gover...I have issues with anyone believing that the government should pay for what they want/need without some effort (e.g. employment) from them. I'm with you on people needing to show personal responsibility. (He who does now work shall not eat.) But I do have to chime in with Layla on the contraceptive part.<br /><br />I had horrible ovarian cysts rupture more than a few times, to the point where I was pretty certain my appendix was bursting. I was doubled over in pain and can now say after giving birth that it was actually MORE painful than labor. What stopped those cysts from forming and rupturing and helped put my body on the road to being able to be hormonally balanced (so that my cycles are no longer whenever the heck they want to happen but are now at predictable levels).......the Pill. I was on it for several years, and was thankful to have insurance to pick up the tab. And I taught in Christian schools at the time. <br /><br />The argument that religious employers should not have to pay for contraception to be included on insurance is a slippery slope. For instance, my last employer believed that ADD and depression were merely sins and not medically related. If they had decided not to cover any condition or medicine for those conditions based on the idea that they were caused by sinful behavior, I would probably have driven off a bridge during that year. And I'm totally serious when I say that. My last year teaching happened to coincide with a broken engagement and the second deepest depression I've ever experience to date. The ability to see a psychiatrist and get medicine to help me along with counseling and other coping skills kept me from taking my own life.<br /><br />That is the slippery slope we're dealing with. I believe that if an employer is going to offer insurance, it needs to cover basic, medically accepted interventions and medicines. It is not their job to decide what diseases they will cover, whether it's contraception or drugs for mental illness. It IS their job, however, to decide if my behavior and character line up with the type of person they want to have representing their organization. And that can be done without bringing medical insurance into the picture.<br /><br />Rush Limbaugh spoke at my graduation and my brother remembers him as being funny. The only thing I know about him is that he could use Beth Moore's study on James, specifically the third chapter. His tongue needs to be reined in on more than just this. And I'm not buying his excuse that he's there for entertainment or some shock factor, allowing him to speak in such ungentleman-like ways. He and others like Ann Coulter could have good solid arguments for what they believe without being crass, name calling, unkind speakers. There is a power in speaking the truth that they have lost because they have sunk to a low level of crudeness.Inklinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02775312085301951675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753966905311105194.post-71144427405043015532012-03-09T09:59:32.337-07:002012-03-09T09:59:32.337-07:00I totally respect your beliefs, but I have to disa...I totally respect your beliefs, but I have to disagree about contraceptives. Pharmaceuticals are pharmaceuticals, and I don't think any employer should be able to determine which pharma's their insurance will or won't carry, based on their principles. Viagra, anyone? Unnecessary and as far as I can tell, not banned as an offering anywhere. Double standards tick me off more than anything, especially when it comes to female issues v. male issues. <br /><br /><br />My general political/government philosophy is that I live for me, and I worry about my life choices, and my government - for better or worse - has no right to dictate my life choices and therefore I don't want them to dictate them for anyone else, either. <br /><br />I heard it put best recently - "saying someone can't marry because it violates your principles is like my saying you can no longer eat donuts because it violates my diet." In other words, don't like it? Don't do it. But don't worry about what I'm doing. <br /><br />I guess I'm a crunchy conservative, although I don't fit anywhere these days and wouldn't vote for a single person running at this time. Perhaps I'm just a non-religious conservative, and that is a very lonely thing to be.Laylahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14421540686236873204noreply@blogger.com