The left is big on slogans. They’ve adapted well to the thinking that if it doesn’t fit onto a bumper sticker it’s waaaaay too wonky for ADHD America.
So I’m getting ready to head down with the kids to the Rally for Religious Liberty in Philly on Friday and I realized that while secularists have tons of slogans I’m sitting here with my marker, heaps of paper, and few ideas.
So after thinking on it for a while here’s some slogans to get me started for the Catholic side of the HHS debate:
10) Keep your ovaries off my rosaries!
9) Pay for your own darn pill!
8) I ain’t yo’ sugar daddy!
7) I usually don’t pay for other people to have sex. Usually.
6) It ain’t up to me to buy your IUD.
5) Your conscience ends where my wallet begins.
4) First you got Roe, Now you want my dough.
3) Obama promised us a “robust” conscience clause and a “robust” economy. What happened?
2) Women will decide their fate, paid for by the Church and State!
1) Your mandate says I have to pay for your man date.
Now it’s your turn. Give us your best slogans. The fate of religious liberty depends upon you!!!
Thanks to LarryD for the help.
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Thanks for the shout out, Matt.
Here’s another one:
“We’ll stay out of your bedrooms when you stay out of our wallets!”
I’ll pay for your pill if you keep it between your knees
Otherwise I like 5
“Fertility is not like AIDS so why’s the pill now unpaid?”
I think I’ll keep my sign fairly simple. Something along the lines of “What if YOU’RE next…..” or maybe “Minority Rights.”
I also like “You can’t out vote religious freedom.” Tho since this is coming from the executive branch, maybe “You can’t legislate liberty’s fate.” I’d like something along that line anyhow. We’re having one in Charlotte and I’m trying to think of the same thing!
Makin’ time? Use your own damn dime.
Your pill? Your bill.
Love reader’s suggestion “your pill-your bill”. Short, to the point and would sound good as a chant.
Liberal Lies Kill People
“Tho since this is coming from the executive branch, maybe “You can’t legislate liberty’s fate.” I’d like something along that line anyhow.”
Interesting point, except the Executive Branch shouldnt be involved in legislating (making laws). The Executive should be more the enforcer. I feel there’s some irony there with what you said. Overstepping Executive Branch needs to be reigned in, I say.
ONLY ANIMALS lack consciences, Mr. Obama: VOTE HIM OUT!
“The HHS Mandate - A Sinking Ship”
President Obamas’ 2012 Campaign Slogan: ‘My Modest Proposal’ for ‘Going Green with Soylent Green!’
http://k2globalcommunicationsllc.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/president-obamas’-2012-campaign-slogan-‘my-modest-proposal’-for-going-green-with-‘soylent-green’/
I won’t pay for you to play.
Great article!!! Here’s my slogan:
Pill to prevent a child today, may end up with no children tomorrow.
My friend’s idea:
Picture of Uncle Sam with Obama’s face: Caption:
Planned Parenthood’s
Pill Pushing Pimp
Been thinking of making one that says, “The women are right here.” Could backfire if not many women show up, though.
This reminds me of a joke I heard many many years ago in college. A man asks a woman, “Would you sleep with me for a million dollars?” She says, “Sure!” He asks, “Would you sleep with me for twenty dollars?” She answers, “What do you think I am?” He says, “We’ve already established that. Now I’m negotiating the price…”
My (obviously facetious) bumper sticker: “If I pay for your birth control, will you sleep with me?”
You Play? No Pay!
Darth Sebelious. She’s out for YOU.
Love “Your Pill, Your Bill”
Here’s mine:
Your HHS Promise: Bread and Circuses!
A Prophylactic
is a Woeful Tactic!
Extra points for find a rhyme for that, maybe..?
“R.I.P. 1st Amendment”
“NFP is Free”
Still think “Keep your ovaries off my rosaries” is the best!
A picture of William Wallace screaming “FREEEDOM!!!!!!!!”
These are great, but we need more on the First Amendment
“The First Amendment: Do you comprehend it?”
“Conscience Rights are Worth the Fight”
“Mr. Obama, you are not my Bishop”
“Stop the Tyranny”
...As for the woman NOW (Not Out of my Wallet!)
I think that we should stick to the core argument. The liberals keep trying to make this about lack of access to contraception. It’s about our First Amendment rights. I suggest HHS Mandate = First Amendment with a circle and slash over First Amendment (like the no smoking signs)
“The HHS Mandate violates this woman’s rights.”
I’m thinking of making a T-shirt and the back lists the points from the USCCB’s documents:
HHS Mandate=
An unwarranted government definition of religion.
A mandate to act against our teachings.
A violation of personal civil rights.
I think we should avoid all signs that refer to “wallets” and “paying”. This makes it a political argument between the differing views of different parties in regard to government assisted healthcare, and that is not the issue being brought forth by the Church. It really is about conscience rights and religious liberty. Granted, when we “pay” from our “wallets” for this, it would compromise our consciences, but the emphasis on wallets rather than consciences will play right into the accusatons against the Church.
Kathy H: Good one! (“The HHS Mandate violates women’s rights.”
@Anne—informally, it appears there may be more women then men, at least among the “mom at home while dad works” crowd. I know several families where mom and kiddos are trekking to the nearest protest site while dad can’t get off work.
The above are great! How about: “People with a conscience have no rights!”
“If you cavort, we won’t pay for you to abort!”
and “Don’t make me pay for you to play!”
I had the “keep your ovaries off my rosaries” idea last week. Glad to see I’m in good company!
“Keep your uterus out of my wallet”
My signs:
“Stop the war on religious women”
“I stand with the Catholic Church”
For kiddos:
“Mr. President, what happened to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution?”
“Catholic kids (heart) religious liberty”
For baby:
Morals are not up for debate.
Learn some self control.
Only animals give into urges.
What about my right to act according to my religion?
Get your mandate out of my fertility.
Stop the increase of Breast Cancer = stop the pill.
I want freedom to follow my religious conscious.
I want to freely live my faith and not just worship.
First Religion then Free Speech. What next Comrade Obama?
If I wanted to live in a communist country I’d move to China.
My Father fought in World War 2 to protect us from people like Obama & Sebilius.
If you want truly free contraception keep your privates to yourself.
NaProTechnology safest and best treatment of women’s health.
Want to protect women’s health? Then don’t lie to me with the pill.
I think I will just mirror what Bishop Olmsted said-
WE WILL NOT COMPLY!
Sally, point taken(concerning wallet/pay comments). I’m sure they will politicize and point out that stingy Republicans won’t ever share. I think the point still has merit though, for two reasons: 1) blue dog democrats and independents get this point as do some left leaning thinkers who still recognize we shouldn’t be forced to financially support things we don’t believe in 2)A lot of this posturing and “careful” policy design by the executive branch has been done knowing that most Americans don’t want to pay for this type of thing. Nonetheless, I agree, they will try to use it against us.
Free exercise of religion doesn’t mean I pay for your horizontal bop!
By the way, I’m not using any sexual references in my signs because I am going with my sister and our children! We might want to keep it clean for the kids…
I agree that the focus should be on the religious liberty issue, not about contraception. We are playing into their hands if we make it about contraception, because that is how they want it to be framed. We are fighting for our religious liberty.
I will not bow to the Almighty O.
For little ones in attendance:
I’m not a preventable disease!
Freedom of worship is not the same as freedom of religion.
God-given Rights, Not Obama’s wrongs!
this quote is by James Madison in the 1785 statement, Memorial and Remonstrance. any part of it would be fitting.
‘The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right. It is unalienable, because the opinions of men, depending only on the evidence contemplated by their own minds, cannot follow the dictates of other men: It is unalienable also, because what is here a right towards men is a duty towards the Creator. It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him. This duty is precedent, both in order of time and in degree of obligation, to the claims of Civil Society.’
in 1777 Thomas Jefferson wrote:
“That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”
Again for the kiddos:
Jesus loves me this I know, Obama wants to make go.
My religion trumps your health.
Keep your hypocrisy off my democracy!
I agree with the poster who said the focus should be on religious liberty (as opposed to contraception, abortifacients, sterilization), although a lot of the slogans are very clever. My sign? As Cardinal George said:
“Cannot, will not comply”
No taxation without procreation.
Your body, Your responsibility.
Separation of Sex and my Wallet.
How about “Support Our Religious Liberty - We support Your Free Will.”
1.“Free practice” of Religion trumps “Free meds” every time!
2. DEMS: They won’t pay our tramps? PUT EM IN CAMPS!
3. If people are responsible for PAYING for thier own sex, why would they have it responsibly?
4. I’m suing the Obama for SEXUAL HARASSMENT.
5. Obama’s Bible: Let the children be PREVENTED.
6. We ? JESUS! You ? PILLS! Don’t make US pay YOUR SEX BILLS!
7. What the Lord God GIVES Obama TAKETH AWAY
8. Hey Barrack, I wanna donate to the GOP, can I borrow a billion?
9. I think when God said “LOVE your NEIGHBOR as YOURSELF”, MASTRABATION was STILL TABOO.
10. FREEDOM’S made a LIE if YOU just COMPLY.
11. SAVE THE CATHOLICS!
12. OBAMA is the WORST, “FIRST” is the BEST! LETS all TAKE DOWN HHS!
13. NO ORGIES on OUR DIME, we WON’T PAY NO FINE!
14. The pills: $9. Year supply: $108. Religous freedoms: PRICELESS!
I am a poet/hothead(two good combinations…for us. at least), so I could just keep going if I wanted to.
Or something like “God’s Law is above my pay grade.”
HHS Mandate…WHAT A FLUKE!!
or “God is My Free Choice.”
We NEED our GOD! Do YOU need PILLS?
I’m sorry, Obama, I DIDN’T KNOW you were a WOMAN!
Obama says P.A. conservatives “CLING TO GOD” with ONE HAND and “GUNS” with another, you REALLY wanna fight us with a PILL?
PRAY FOR THE DAY the FIRST comes FIRST!
Eh, I’m getting cheesy, Im gonna shut up for a bit.
Save Religious Freedom
Preserve The First Amendment
What I Choose To Insure Is Up To Me
“Leaving the human species alone, Frankenstein!”
“If you believe in it, you pay for it; I choose to believe otherwise!”
“Keep your pill’s bills off my Capitol Hill!”
“Keep your pills off my conscience”
“If you can’t afford for your pills, abstain then get a real job”
“Birth control is neither birth nor control (Archbishop Fulton Sheen)”
“If you want healthcare like Canada and Europe, migrate there; our ancestors migrated here for religious reason”
“You are in the wrong continent, if love China go there; if you love Europe go there. Here you are independent first by paying your own bills!
The government sure won’t spay and neuter my DOGS, but they will contracept and sterilize my neighbor? HOW ANTI GOSPEL!
Matt, a big thank you for a really big laugh provided here by you and my fellow readers! My only thought about Mr. O and HHS versus the First Amendment isn’t really funny, but it is sincere: “Barack Obama has an identity crisis. He thinks he’s Caesar Augustus.”
Good slogans and some raunchy ones that I hope and pray are not used. Many on the other side don’t get it, so we need to educate (not fire up their anger) with the slogans. The main issue is religious freedom. So I like the ones by Sherry, Kathy, and Tonia. Since the pay issue is secondary, I have to say, “Your pill. Your bill.” is great. Succinct and to the point!
How about:“State tells Church: ‘Stay in the kitchen’!” Or “1776: the government made us pay them money for nothing in return. What’s happening now?”
Actually, let me rephrase that first one: “State tells religious women: ‘Stay in the Church!’”
OBAMACARE: The government’s gift that keeps US giving.
Obama sin laden - not a friend of freeom! (Or conscience. or children.
or women. or Catholics. or the constitution.)
Your sexual ‘freedom’ keeps us both enslaved.
My favorite: If Fluke was just a nematode, would I have to pay for that pill?
In order to unify people of faith (or no faith), we should stick with the real underlying issue of Religious Freedom that is now at stake in our great Nation. By slamming people about contraception, this will only alienate other Christians. We all need to stick together. Please look up former Southern Baptist Pastor Mike Huckabee’s You-tube about, “We are all Catholics now!” which is quite a statement coming from our Protestant brethren. Other pastors and leaders from Focus on the Family and Family Research Council stand with us as well. If we lose our Religious Freedom, then it is a downward domino effect from there. Thanks for considering this idea.
Courtesy of “larryvote” -
Freedom of Religion, NOT Freedom from Religion!
Free, unsolicited advice: Keep it clean. Know your stuff. Make your children and grandchildren proud. Don’t give the oposition any amunition.
Come November, we’ll remember!
I’ll be at the protest in Ellicott City, MD tomorrow.
1. The predictions of Pope Paul VI were not a Fluke!
2. HHS mandate prefigures a China man without a date.
3. HHS mandate is one-child-policy-light.
4. The President swore to defend the USA, not allow China’s policies to weaken us.
I’ll be at the protest in Ellicott City, MD tomorrow.
1. The predictions of Pope Paul VI were not a Fluke!
2. HHS mandate prefigures a China man without a date.
3. HHS mandate is one-child-policy-light.
4. The President swore to defend the USA, not allow China’s policies to weaken us.
-Gerry
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Be fruitful and multiply unnatural rights and kill natural rights.
-Gerry
wonderingzygoteemeritus [dot] blogspot [dot] com
Keep Your Mandates Off My Freedoms
I’ve realized what has been bothering me all day about the “don’t make me pay for your pills” type slogans. They send the message that our problem is with women who want us to pay for their birth control, rather than with a government that is limiting our 1st Amendment rights. Especially if held by men, signs with these slogans could be more hurtful than helpful. Please, remember that the target audience for our message is HHS and the president, not women who use contraception. And I agree with the calls to keep it clean for the kids.
Love it, Elisa! I’ll definitely keep this one on file! Come November, we’ll remember! Right now, I think I’ll stick with “We will not comply”. This mandate should scare people in both parties and people of all faiths so I do not want to be too political for this rally.
Catholics refuse to sit at the back of the bus.
@Anne: THANK you for saying that! Yes, in opposing evil let us never lose sight of our own objectives here. Let us be pro-Christ before we are anti-Obama or anti-Sebelius or anti-anyone else. Those women are only the “beneficiaries” of an anti-Catholic and anti-American mandate.
we voted for HOPE. not for a new POPE
(except I did not vote for him)
Don’t mess with the Catholic Church…there will be HELL to pay!
HHS,you can try, but I won’t comply.
@Anne, unfortunately you’ve hit upon the truth about many on these blogs: they ARE anti-woman. I’ve seen many posts that demean women, blame them for most of the sin, and belittle me when I point it out (I can only assume that I’m not actually supposed to have a thought in my little head). It is sad how angry and threatened some seem to feel. This push to come up with glib slogans, started by Mr. Archbold and his mostly woman-targeted list, is just an excuse to feel justified in giving air to those feelings in the guise of fighting for religious freedom. I’m grateful that many Catholics in my parish don’t feel that way and I feel sorry for the daughters of some of these posters.
No, the slogans aren’t anti-woman. I’m a Catholic woman and of *course* men AND women are angry. First Amendment rights matter to most sane people. And all points made in most of the slogans (and I’m including most in the comments too) were valid ones, though I wouldn’t use every single one, mainly because it’s not in my personality. But “Keep your ovaries off my rosaries!” is just a witty reversal of a feminist slogan used by the left. Should we make the primary focus about the money we unjustly pay? No, not primarily, for reasons ALREADY illustrated - though the pill itself that we pay for damages women’s health and if people want to make slogans about that, go for it. I do think using any Rush Limbaugh type “pimpy” rheotoric should be avoided because it simply exceeds the boundaries of charity (and look at how THAT turned out for him?!).
Without Life and Liberty there is NO Pursuit of Happiness
Acually,
Be unfruitful and multiply unnatural rights and subtract natural rights.
wonderingzygoteemeritus [dot] blogspot [dot] com
So proud of my 12 year old for coming up with this one:
“Oh Say, Can You See? They’re taking our rights!”
Ann, Jeanette,
You are right, I apologize. Of mine own, slogans numbered 2, 6, 9, and 13 were over the top, and several of Mr. Archibolds were, too. (Sorry Mr. A, I gotta put the blame on someone else, just a bit!) If someone thought others of mine were too, I apologize for them as well. I hope nobody uses them in public, it wouldn’t be charitable. It wasn’t the average everyday woman who made this mandate, it was the Admin. who did. Even if we do have to get sharp, it shouldn’t be with the people who we hope to support us, and probably would if they didn’t think we were anti-women.
Honestly, I think Elisa’s “Come November, we’ll remember!” was one of the best: Aimed at the President who did this. Much better than mine.
Contraception pills cause breast cancer!
Christine on Friday, Mar 23, 2012 9:50 AM (EST):
So proud of my 12 year old for coming up with this one:
“Oh Say, Can You See? They’re taking our rights!”
Change this just a little
“Oh Say, Can You See?
Our Rights They’re Taking Away.”
To the tune of “Battle Hymn of the Republic”:
Oh! We won’t comply when Rights are Wronged,
We shall not fail this test!
Even smallest Inch, when given opens
Ways to take The Rest!
And a Right so Fundemental as
Our Right to do what’s best
Cannot be second-guessed!
...... I only just jotted this down after seeing what Christine’s son wrote, so I have no Chorus. And I am not sure if “Our Right to do what’s best” should have been something like “Pursuing Happiness”. Or maybe that can be a different line. I’m feeling poetically lazy today, so….Anyone wanna finnish it up for me? Or think up a name?
Okay, okay, I feel guilty leaving it like that, Here it is, with the chorus:
Oh! We won’t comply when rights are wronged,
We shall not fail this test!
Even smallest inch, when given opens
Ways to take the rest!
And a right so fundemental as
Our right to do what’s best
Cannot be second-guessed!
Refrain:
No, we shall not, no we never will comply!
We shall keep our Faith, we will not comprimise!
No, we shall not, no we never will comply!
So Freedoms can live on!
Perhaps another verse about God and our Nation’s Foundations could be added.
Why No Waivers for Flag Wavers ?
Where do I convert to Amish?
What religion is Union?
Dennis Prager has had a great one out for a while that really says it all:
“The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.”
http://stores.dennisprager.com/PROD/ME106.html
Great article, just a followup, Just back from the rally in St.Paul, MN saw a lot of these great slogans on signs there, I have the feeling I will be going back the the Fed building with a lot of my friends, Hell, I will rent the bus, Yes we are going back, God Bless
Mandate! MANDATE!? We don’t need no stinkin’ mandate!!
End the Communist-Masonic-Secularist Obama Dictatorship!
Condoms are For Dum-Dums!
Had to post again, 2000 + in St.Paul, could not find anything on Tv or Mpls paper, very sad, 50 persons show up for much less, lots of publicity , I hate to admit but IT is here . Monday and Tuesday will be very interesting , Lets get the word out. God Bless
Maybe for the next rallies:
1: Mr. Obama: Please re-read the 1st Amendment
2: HHS Mandate? No thanks, prefer 1st Amendment instead.
HHS mandate = Hell & Human Sacrifice
“No taxation without procreation” is the wittiest yet. Kudos to the one who thought it first.
“Don’t bill me, Bro’”
“ALL pay for your “fun”? ALL pay for our guns!”
Shows how ridiculous it is. And shows how the Left rarely thinks things through, past the emotional.
HHS mandate =
1.) Hinting at His Super Mandate
2.) Helping His Subjects to become more submissive
3.) Hate Healthy Suggestions, don’t allow healthy alternatives
4.) Happily Hurting Subjects
5.) Holocaust Happening Soon
6.) Helping Hospitals to Sink into Muddy Mores, all ehtics are relative to your ability to pay
We are free….We are Catholic!
Aids is not end of life, Aids is new begnning of life
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