The Pill, the Pope, the Bishops and Boldness

The best defense is a strong offence! The Church has been weak, defensive, and lacking courage and boldness in its fight for religious freedom against the Obamacare contraceptive mandate. Specifically, we have failed to aggressively attack the atrocity of contraception! Contraception is a disaster...but no one talks about it. The pill is poison for the feminine body. Recently, waiting in an ER room I read in a health magazine (bereft of moral consciousness other than "nature-awareness") that in addition to blood clots, cancer and the rest, we now know that sustained time on The Pill systematically and cumulatively diminishes about 40 or so essential nutrients in the woman's body. Your multivitamin will not replace these! Contraception is a CATASTROPHE...for the woman, the relationship, the family, the culture and the society. But the Obama-Clinton-Sibelius-Pelosi regime worships before it and indignantly demands that every Georgetown law student has an innate right to tax-payer funded "protection." The bishops have been a big disappintment: they have argued on the grounds of religious liberty only and have not attacked the substantive issue of why we oppose contraception. They have granted the high ground to the contraceptors (Even the name sounds bad!. They have given the impression that our objection is without substance, a pious preference, an eccentric and archaic holdover from the past. Pope Francis is even worse: if the bishops are in retreat, he is stampeding away from the battle with his flippant comments. We can only assume that he is as clueless about the USA as his comments indicate. Attack mode may not win this culture war but at least people will know what we stand for. It is called witness.Where are our heroic, virile, forceful bishops... like those who opposed communism in Eastern Europe and the Protestant establishment in America a hundred years ago?