‘It seems far-fetched, from my perspective, to think that God should have any opinion at all about contraceptive technology, let alone about which corporate entity should pay for it. Yet that is the argument the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops made last week. God doesn’t like birth control, they said. To force Catholic organizations to pay for birth control goes against God and so against the consciences of right-minded Catholics who believe in God.’

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‘It is not a “war on religion” when 1st Amendment protections are employed to protect both freedom of religion and freedom from religion — because nobody has the right to write their theology into our Constitution.’

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