Equitable compromise: Faith-based employees deserve the same coverage

[SteelCityDem]

President Barack Obama has not declared war on the Roman Catholic Church, no matter what the faithful may be hearing in church.

Last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said that starting in about 18 months, many faith-based employers will have to provide health insurance coverage that includes reproductive services.

U.S. Catholic bishops -- and right-wing lobbies that seek to drive a wedge between Mr. Obama and liberal Catholic voters -- called the ruling an attack on religious freedom that turns the faithful into second-class citizens. Catholic leaders told churchgoers that "we cannot -- we will not -- comply with this unjust law."

Read more: [link:http://blogs.sites.post-gazette.com/index.php/opinion/a-fine-point/32659-equitable-compromise-faith-based-employees-deserve-the-same-coverage|

[mike_c]

1. faithful employees ALWAYS have the option of not claiming the coverage...

...if doing so would violate their conscience, so the bishops are barking up the wrong tree, it seems to me. Maybe they recognize that many of their employees do not accept the church's dogma on contraception, abortion, etc. If so, Obama isn't their real problem, LOL.

[msongs]

2. imposing unjust laws is a catholic church way of life going back thousands of years lol nt

[enlightenment]

3. The objection makes zero sense.

Are they suggesting that simply making it available will cause the faithful to use it?

I had no idea that health insurance was a gateway drug.

[gopiscrap]

4. My wife worked as a Catholic School teacher for 15 years

and you should have heard how fucking psycotic they got when ever abortion or birth control came into the conversation. She used to hate it, the right to lifers would come into her classroom for show and tell with a glass jar and a pickled fetus in it. It drove her nuts...finally she got a classroom in a public school. She not only doesn't have to put up with that shi anymore, but she also gets paid 57% more than she would at the Catholic School in addition to pay for work that is off the regular clock.