Health and the Common Condom

Why the Church isn't going to like the Court's take on their HHS indignation:

   ..... The Catholic church has been misled before when it comes to Constitutional precedent and health and well being of people it associates with. Condoms clearly DO prevent disease. Not only AIDS but
they prevent some venereal disease transmission also- The Congress and the President clearly have not only the right but the obligation to regulate in ways that protect health.
Here is a recent story regarding a woman being awarded by a jury an astronomical sum because she had sex with someone who took OFF a condom during sex who gave her Herpes. HERE . See Center for Disease Control statement on why condoms done the right way curb spread of certain diseases. HERE http://www.cdc.gov/condomeffectiveness/latex.htm

     The Church-any church- has every right to teach people or spiritually guide people that having sex outside marriage  (where blood tests might be a state requirement for a marriage license) is wrong and should not happen. The Congress and the President have every constitutional right to tell people that if they do, they need to use a condom. Few people who have sex outside marriage ask first for a medical check up of their partner and there have been many cases of transmitting diseases through sex.

Sometimes Constitutional statements are not moral ones. The constitutional right to marriage equality under equal protection grounds of the constitution is not necessarily a moral statement- but a constitutional one. There is a difference. All things permitted are not necessarily wise or helpful or moral in the eyes of any church.   That is exactly the point of a free society- people make their own moral determinations.

     I think it is morally wrong to shoot Bambi for sport. But its legal. Some people even eat Bambi after shooting her. I find that heart wrenching. Some people eat rabbits or Lapin as they say in French for lunch. I had a pet bunny named snowflake. Its not illegal to eat Lapin.

  The church finds it destructive and grossly immoral to have sex outside marriage. Some people who did and are not married or married later after sex now with lots of kids strongly disagree.  Brangelina are not married. They are icons to some- Other single women are raising children as single parents- not married.
Clearly we give people choices in a free society and some others find immoral.  Some people had to kiss a  lot of frogs before finding Prince Charming.

The greatness of our country lies in our ability to create civil space for opinions different than ours. We are not a totalitarian society where one organizations moral beliefs dictate to the rest of the country what should be the moral norm- those societies allowed things like corrupt Dominican inquisitions to burn at the stake people deemed heretics who disagreed with the political whims of the day. The day the great American experament goes down that road is the day the great American experiment is over.