Bishops and Bubbles

Bishop Robert Vasa of the Santa Rosa Catholic Diocese (California) has decided that the 200 teachers in his Catholic school system will have to sign an agreement that contraceptives "gravely offend human dignity." About 50 of the teachers involved are not Catholics. 

I doubt if more than 40 of the teachers involved believe that contraceptives are a bad thing. Polls of American Catholic women demonstrate that something like 90% of them have used contraception, following the ancient Catholic dogma that "what the priest doesn't know will not  hurt him." 

As a witness to the 1950s loyalty oath bubble, I advise the teachers to sign the oath immediately. Back in the 1950s the Communists all signed loyalty oaths, of course, and remained employed. Only liberals took the oaths seriously and refused to sign and lost their livelihoods. This brave stand, I am sorry to say, accomplished nothing.

Teachers, do not give up your jobs. Yes, the Bishop, in his staggering foolishness, is forcing the faculty to lie. So much for the person who  might "gravely offend human dignity."  But lying to a dictatorial doofus to keep your family fed is an adult duty, in this country or in China, and one in which you can take pride and even pleasure.