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• Scott Brown's contraception confusion

  Tue Feb 14, 2012
  • I'm also wondering if you realize that this is all making an excellent argument for a single-payer health care system? If religiously-affiliated organizations can't offer reasonable health care in good conscience (and we have to allow these exemptions for everyone if we do it for one religion) then …

• Scott Brown's contraception confusion

  Tue Feb 14, 2012
  • Re: your response to Lynn: You seem to be assuming that there is always a choice in hospital that someone can go to. This is not the case. There are many areas of the country where a Catholic-affiliated hospital is the only place you could be brought by ambulance.

• Scott Brown's contraception confusion

  Tue Feb 14, 2012
  • Oh, well, as long as 3 women you know agree with you, then your argument is correct and my own view as a woman and any views held by any other women (i.e. the majority of women) is invalid and pointless.

• Scott Brown's contraception confusion

  Tue Feb 14, 2012
  • I can't speak for anyone else, but an awful lot of us are 'suggesting' that women won't be treated as second-class citizens just because certain religions see us that way. Or certain Republican men.

• Scott Brown's contraception confusion

  Tue Feb 14, 2012
  • I cannot wait for November - I'm so excited that I get to tick the box next to Elizabeth Warren's name! There is a huge amount of excitement about her, and I know some people who voted for Brown who will be voting for Warren this time around. She's already running a great campaign!

• Scott Brown's contraception confusion

  Tue Feb 14, 2012
  • Religious freedom doesn't mean that religions are free to subjugate the women who work for them. What's next? They require their employees to account for how they spend every dollar of their salaries to ensure it isn't used in a way the church doesn't approve of? Because this is NO DIFFERENT.

• Scott Brown's contraception confusion

  Tue Feb 14, 2012
  • I'm pretty sure the Republicans would say they wouldn't have to offer you a health plan at all, but maybe they'd be required to give you a discount on healing prayers.

• Marriage equality reaches Washington

  Mon Feb 13, 2012
  • While I understand where the 'more meaningful' comment is coming from, I have to take issue with it. As a resident of Massachusetts, I very much DID want full marriage equality in our state, as did a huge number of other MA residents.

• Sunday: Rachel Maddow, Rep. Jerry Nadler, the Solyndra 'scandal'...

  Sun Sep 18, 2011
  • Yay! Finally the show I always hope to find on Sunday mornings is here AND it is on Saturday as well! It fills a definite weekend need, but also provides a new format for a show with a liberal point of view.

• No Maddow Show Friday, 7/22*

  Fri Jul 22, 2011
  • What Tomm said. I imagine they have a much sadder and more important thing to deal with than a TV show. My heart is with her family and the TRMS staff - I'm so very sorry.