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I am having a real problem with the 'debate' of recent days in which the opponents of affordable health care have focused on the part of the plan that requires health insurers to provide free access to family planning, i.e. birth control. The religionists are claiming that such a mandate is unconstitutional because it deprives them of their freedom of religion. To me that means that their religion mandates that they prevent women from controlling their bodies, that they prevent married heterosexual couples from planning their own families. I have read the Gospels pretty carefully and I cannot find in any them statements 'by' Jesus or any of the now long dead people who wrote them that this is somehow the doctrine of the religion they claim was handed them by Jesus and that by having this requirement in the AHC Act that you are being denied free exercise of your religion. What I fear in this 'debate' is that the result will be a deprivation of liberty for all. This is not free exercise of religion as guaranteed by the First Amendment. This is the stuff of your basic garden variety theocracy. I am sorry if you are offended by my opposition to such nonsense but please don't try to impose your theocratic views on the rest of the society. I want no part of you or your moral precepts. I will find my own way in this world.