Excerpts from USA Today
February 5, 2012
“Few Americans of any political stripe would disagree with the simple proposition that the government should steer away from meddling in church affairs. Certainly, it should never try to force a religiously affiliated institution to violate a central tenet of its faith…
“In drawing up the rules that will govern health care reform, the Obama administration didn’t just cross that line. It galloped over it, requiring employers affiliated with the Catholic Church to include free birth control in their health insurance plans. That’s contrary to both Catholic doctrine and constitutional guarantees of religious freedom…
“The administration has mounted three lines of defense for its decision, all of which sidestep the central issue…
“The exemption does not cover Catholic organizations that employ or serve large numbers of people of different faiths…Those organizations and the people who lead them would be put in the impossibly awkward position of facilitating contraception even though the church teaches that it is ‘intrinsically wrong to use contraception to prevent new human beings from coming into existence.’
“The administration…argues that nearly all women use contraception at some point in their lives…that it is expensive, and that the prestigious Institute of Medicine says birth control should be part of a comprehensive health care plan. We’re sympathetic to the medical reasoning, but good intentions are not sufficient grounds to override religious freedom. The government is free to promote contraception in other ways. In fact, it already does.
“In an election-year hothouse, the issue has quickly become caricatured as the Obama administration’s ‘war on Catholics’ versus the Republicans’ ‘war on contraception’…The First Amendment’s guarantee of religious freedom deserves more weight than the administration allowed…”
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