You know how I said from the very beginning of 2011 that the Vatican and U.S. Catholic bishops had latched onto the religious freedom argument in order to stand it on its head? How they intended to use the religious freedom argument to argue that their religious freedom and their rights trump your religious freedom and your rights?
As Jamison Foser is noting at Political Correction, you can't see this my-religious-freedom-not-yours argument any more clearly than in Kansas representative Tim Huelskamp's "Military Religious Freedom Protection Act." Got that? This is an act to protect religious freedom in the military.
And what does it propose to do? Here's an excerpt:
SEC. 3. USE OF MILITARY INSTALLATIONS AS SITE FOR MARRIAGE CEREMONIES OR MARRIAGE-LIKE CEREMONIES.
A military installation or other property owned, rented, or otherwise under the jurisdiction or control of the Department of Defense shall not be used to officiate, solemnize, or perform a marriage or marriage-like ceremony involving anything other than the union of one man with one woman.
No matter what you and your faith community may believe about marriage equality, you will not have the freedom to enact your beliefs if my bill designed to protect religious freedom passes into law. My religious freedom and my rights translate into no religious freedom and no rights for you and yours.
This is the entire gist of the U.S. Catholic bishops' lavishly funded new initiative to protect and promote religious liberty. If you want to hear Huelskamp 'splain all of this to fellow right-wing Catholic Raymond Arroyo, here's a video for you at the Catholic Tube World Over site.
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