Comments on: Bishops, Keep Your Hands Off Health Care!

By: Unbelievable: Stupak Hijacking Health Care Reform Again!! « Majority Speaks

Unbelievable: Stupak Hijacking Health Care Reform Again!! « Majority Speaks — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:29:19 +0000

[...] may be feeling deja vu. Backed by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Stupak pulled the same trick–an 11th hour meeting with Pelosi–to get his ban into the first House [...]

By: Joel Welty

Joel Welty — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:28:13 +0000

Foolishness such as the bishops are showing explains why the Catholic church is in a state of collapse. Instead of interfering with political questions, they should take steps to eliminate sexual perversions among themselves.

By: Brendan O'Casey

Brendan O'Casey — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:04:29 +0000

The bishops represent themselves, not the majority of Catholics. These guys have covered up clerical sexual abuse worldwide for centuries, have campaigned ceaselessly for tax support for their faith-based private schools (Lieberman’s school voucher amendment was fortunately shot down in the Senate on March 16), and have sought to make everyone share their “malignantly patriarchalist” preference for embryos over real people (like preferring acorns over oak trees). It’s time to put these guys out to pasture.

By: Valerie Ann Johnson

Valerie Ann Johnson — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:42:05 +0000

Seems to me that Gillian’s comments take us away from the heart of the post – the problem with the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. I am glad to read how this “wealthy trade organization” heavy-handedly influences our government. Outing these activities squares with my understanding of feminist praxis.

By the way, I think those Catholic bishops need to direct their attention to issues closer to their spiritual home…ie antics in the Vatican.

By: Catherine A. Traywick

Catherine A. Traywick — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:49:55 +0000

Gillian, your assertion is strange and barely logical: How is there something overtly anti-feminist about one progressive journalistic publication following the work of other progressive journalistic publications? Particularly when the publications in question have a history of covering women’s issues and feature prominent feminist writers like Courtney Martin and Ann Friedman?

By: hollytomlinson

hollytomlinson — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:41:07 +0000

Not linking exclusively to feminist sites, doesn’t stop this being a feminist blog. You should judge Ms. on its content.

By: hollytomlinson

hollytomlinson — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:05:46 +0000

But I agree with you, Gillian, that a single payer is a much better system. I grew up being cared for by the British National Health Service, which automatically covers everyone regardless of ability to pay. It doesn’t use insurance companies so doesn’t waste money on their profits and administration costs. It’s sad that the insurance industry is so entrenched in the U.S. that healthcare reform, while doing some good like helping those with pre-existing conditions, won’t challenge insurance company’s ability to siphon money away from actual healthcare provision.

By: hollytomlinson

hollytomlinson — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:20:02 +0000

Gillian, if Ms. was so tight with the Democrats, they wouldn’t have mentioned that the people holding up the bill are 10-11 Democrats led by another Democrat Bart Stupak.

By: Gillian Spencer

Gillian Spencer — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:26:33 +0000

And what is with these links? I came to this site from The Common Ills and I will be e-mailing C.I. to let her know that this is not a feminist site. That’s obvious by your links.
FAIR?
Which couldn’t call out the sexism against Hillary once during the primaries?
FAIR? Are you kidding me?
Ezra Klein?
I’m on the floor laughing.
Tapped?
Ms. is already too tight with the Democratic Party as evidenced by their laughable “This is what feminism looks like” cover in 2009 (Barack Obama on the cover). I had hoped that the blog would mean a return to feminism. Christine ran Ms. Musing like a feminist site and she linked to feminists — including The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review.
Count me as grossly unimpressed with your faux feminism that places the Democratic Party ahead of women’s needs.

By: Gillian Spencer

Gillian Spencer — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:22:58 +0000

What outrages me the most about this is the fact that the plan is a joke. America needs single payer and this doesn’t provide that. It does force all Americans to purchase insurance. Right now we have that option already, under the plan that option becomes a law with penalties.
This is nothing but a give-away to big business.
The proposals (House and Senate) need to be scrapped and too bad that Dennis Kucinich is the only one with enough guts to say so.