In general, no one should be forced to communicate a conept in which they do not believe.

The Catholic Church doesn't believe in contraception, so it should not be forced to communicate anything about contraception.

But here, it has 100,000 employees, including non-Catholics. And it is not being forced to communicate a particular opinion about contraceptives, and whether they are good or evil, a sin or a sacrament.

They are being required to inform their employees of the existence of coverage for prescription contraceptives in state insurance policies.

I do not believe that fact is controversial. Rather, whether one should use contraceptives is controversial (to the church at least!).

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An attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union (news - web sites) argued that siding with the Catholics would, in essence, impose the church's doctrine on thousands of non-Catholic women who work at the church's hospitals or social-service agencies.

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I see that logic and agree with it.

I wonder, though, whether some USian churches have not endangered their own religious freedoms by collaborating with the president's enthusiasm for fuzzing the constitutionally mandated separation of church and state, through his willingness to allow faith-based groups to deliver basic social services.