Hail Caesar. And every knee shall bow.

The people who write for the Virginian Pilot have faith that their readers are as stupid and bigoted as they are. In their latest assault on reason and morals they claim – and I’m not making this up –

“Insurance companies don't mind [giving free birth control pills, condoms, tubal ligation and abortion pills], because contraception is far less expensive than what it prevents.”

What the editorial’s writers want you to believe is that insurance companies are happy to spend billions of dollars paying for condoms, birth control pills, tubal ligations and abortion pills because that way they won’t be paying for live births. Even though they price the medical costs of having babies into their health care premiums. This is so breathtakingly stupid that even the writers can’t believe it unless they have been brain damaged.

Here is how the State Run Media are representing the Obama edict:

“Because birth control is critical to a woman's right to make decisions about her health, and because the Catholic Church's many hospitals and schools employ nonbelievers, the administration decided to preserve access to no-cost contraception by making insurance companies pay for it.”

And where is the insurance company going to come up with the money to pay for contraception and abortion?  Despite the assertions of the Virginian Pilot's editorial writers contraception is not "no-cost,"  not even if the Obama administration drafts every doctor and nationalizes every drug company.

 Is it coming from  “Obama’s stash?”   Maybe the Virginian Pilot's editorial writer was one of those people in Detroit signing up for ObamaDollars from Obama's stash.

Insurance companies will not be in business long if they started giving stuff away.  The money they are not paying for live births? You mean that contraceptives will end live births?  For the sake of people planning to retire and collect social security, we should hope not!  The simple answer is that if the Obama edict is going to be enforced, the cost is going to be shifted to other coverage. The people who pay for these Obama mandated policies are going to be paying for services that they don’t need, want, or find morally repugnant and that is not limited to Catholics.

The Brokest Nation in History is mandating “free” birth control when the cost of obtaining it is less than the cost of a tankful of gas. Want an abortion? Go to Planned Parenthood and for the cost of a few pairs of sneakers you can have your baby killed in the womb.

How about this lie?

“The decision allows the Catholic Church to maintain its religious principles. It preserves a woman's right to birth control.”

No, the Catholic Church is mandated to provide insurance policies that include services that it deems sinful, violating its fundamental religious principles.  More, it violates the separation of church and state.  You remember how outraged the irreligious Left was about school prayer?  Now the government is telling religions that they must obey government edits that do violence to their most fundamental beliefs and the Virginian Pilot who never met a school prayer that it did not condemn, gives full throated support to the state telling a religion what it must do.  The issue was never about the cost of the insurance, it was always about the coverage of the policies. To imply the opposite is to lie. And the woman’s right to birth control is was never an issue before the Obama edict. The edict simply forces other people to pay for birth control and abortion services.

“The irony is thick: In an effort to prevent government from telling a religion what to do, a religion seems eager to tell government what to do about everyone else.”

Pure bullshit. There is no better example of Liberals in government - and the Government’s lapdog media - eager to tell everyone else what to do.  The Catholic Church has no power to tell anyone what to do.  The Government has the power to force you to comply with its wishes at the point of a gun.

The irony is thick and the lies are sickening.

Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit, distills the current hysteria thus: "It's as if we passed a law requiring mosques to sell bacon and then, when people objected, responded by saying 'What's wrong with bacon? You're trying to ban bacon!!!!'" ....  People are free to buy bacon, and free to buy condoms. But the state has no compelling interest to force either down your throat.

This is the way we lose our individual freedom. This is the assault on religious freedom and freedom of conscience that we find in totalitarian societies. Dictators and evil always comes in the guise of good: in this case disguised as “health care.” Is there literally no limit to the ways that the Left wants to control and dominate you? So far, we have not seen any.   God must bow to Caesar because Caesar has a gun, and the media is on Caesar's side.

UPDATE: Perhaps we should be a little more forgiving to the brain damaged yahoos who wrote that Virginian Pilot editorial. I’m talking about their ludicrous claim that the birth control and abortion mandate will be revenue neutral for insurance companies. You remember the argument: giving birth control pills and paying for abortions is less costly than paying for a woman to give birth? It appears that instead of making that stupid argument all by themselves, they are repeating a talking point from the Obama administration. Which means that there is now no question that it’s a lie. We are reinforced in our opinion by this article from The Hill “Insurance industry could take hit from birth control mandate” 

“Privately, however, insurers say there's nothing "free" about preventing unwarranted pregnancies. They say the mandate also covers costly surgical sterilization procedures, and that in any case even the pill has up-front costs.

"Saying it's revenue-neutral doesn't mean it's free and that you're not paying for it," an industry source told The Hill.

Doctors still have to be paid to prescribe the pill, drugmakers and pharmacists have to be paid to provide it - and all that money has to come from insurance premiums, not future hypothetical savings, the source said.”

The insurance industry is very dependent on the government and is not going to stick it’s neck out to oppose Obama on the record so they are not going to go on the record in opposition. They are simply going to increase premiums to cover the mandate.

Here is another indication of the Obama administration’s view of childbirth: it’s an illness. I quote from the White House fact sheet:

“Covering contraception is cost neutral since it saves money by keeping women healthy and preventing spending on other health services,"

Let me repeat that for people who are not paying attention or who are cheering the government’s edicts on religion: contraception “keeps women healthy!” The next time you see a pregnant woman; know that by definition of the Obama administration, and the editorial page of the Virginian Pilot, she is diseased.