Doublespeak or Just a Lie?

I thought religious people believed that to lie is to sin. Doesn't seem to keep clergy from constantly telling fibs. Father Peter-Michael Preble certainly has no problem with it. In "Religious Freedom Under Attack", he states "...it was announced by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that the religious exemption on certain parts of the health care plan would not continue and now religious organizations, like the church, would have to supply health insurance that provides coverage for contraception and abortion." There are a couple problems with this interpretation of the announcement. No religion is required to provide health insurance at all. Only those taking funds from or supplying services to the government would lose their exemption. While we're on it lets take a look at that word, "exemption." Basically, so long as religions stay out of government coffers they are basically free to be the biggest assholes around but that's not enough. The hierarchy of various religions think they should have the "right" to tell all of us not only what we can or can not say and do but also what we can or can not think. The moment anyone disputes this bogus "right" they insist we're attacking "religious freedom."

This is no different from the lies clergy have told regarding marriage equality. It has nothing to do with them. It is none of their business. Government can not and will not force them to perform, participate, or witness homosexual marriages. The only thing that has ever been proposed is that government endorse civil marriage and recognize religious marriages performed by willing clergy and sects/denominations. Yet, they have always falsely claimed that it would make them act against their conscience by participating. Bullshit! AS for their consciences I don't see any evidence they have any such thing. For their lies and distortions the scumbags deserve nothing but contempt.

Seems to me that it is those who attempt to dictate to others what they can say and think are the ones attacking "freedom", religious or otherwise. They are attacking the rest of us.