The issue is even more basic than what you seem to believe. Its about the Federal government telling a supplier what he must give away to its customers ast no cost to them. The next thing you know, they’ll be telling if what we have to buy, like health insurance.

Religious people, get a spine! Say NO to Obamacare and Obama!!!

She’s right, Muslim employers CAN impose sharia restrictions. It’s not a problem because it’s protected religious expression, much like Chik-Fil-A being closed on Sundays. IIRC, there are a few Popeye’s franchises that can no longer serve pork products (breakfast, mostly) because their Muslim owners don’t want it. 

I mean, would you expect to get sliced ham at a Jewish deli?

And are people too stupid to understand that having government mandate certain types of coverage represents a gigantic intrusion into the insurance marketplace?

Unfortunately, a lot of people are too stupid to understand that, until it affects them personally and directly.

 Actually its not just Catholics, its all the American people. I think the percentage of Catholics who are fine with forcing insurance companies to provide contraceptive coverage might actually be a little bit higher, as long as they don’t make the church pay for it. Which of course means the cost comes out of the pockets of all the rest of us.

 Maybe if we elect Romney he’ll solve this problem. Oh, wait a minute-

It’s a freedom issue…you know right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.  The virtue of those rights are that you don’t have to infringe on any other person for you to exercise those rights.  Contraception as a mandated right is just forcing someone else to pursue someone elses happiness.

 There’s Catholics (who actually go to Church and try to follow the teachings) and catholics who think they’re part of some ethnic group and never darken the door of a church nor follow any rule but their own hedonistic urges. The former are out working for Santorum, Gingrich or Romney; the latter are glued to the tube following the latest on Whitney Houston’s funeral.

 Yeah, on the mandate, but not on Obamacare in general, which they did and still do support. Go back and look at a video of Obama at the signing ceremony for Obamacare. One of the attendees who got a pen was one of the most influential leaders among nuns. And the National Bishops Conference advocated for the law from the beginning, and still do. Why do you think Congressmen like Joe Sestak agreed to sign the bill after Obama (supposedly) agreed to leave abortion out of it? That was to a large extent at the urgings of the Bishops. That is to say, they were involved in both aspects, both in opposition to the abortion question, but in support of the law in general.

Then there are those of us who are relapsed (because we don’t 100% agree with Church doctrine — one shouldn’t burden one’s church with one’s individual heresies) but nevertheless accept that the Church has its doctrine for a reason — yet still don’t agree with this administration nor this attack on the 1st amendment (or the Church — may be relapsed, but it is still my Church, and I will defend it).
Church doctrine, and its interpretation (that’s an not inconsequential consideration), will not always put it in either political camp.  To which I say: that’s the breaks; no religious organization is or should be expected to cleave to any political group’s ideology, so be happy when they are on your “side” and accept when they are not — separation of church and state after all.

I don’t think we can start on the Obamunist too early. The sooner, the better.

As I said earlier, the USCCB supported Obamacare, and they’ve been feeding the monster of big FedGov since teh 30s. They are simply squealing like the leftist pigs they are.

 If they have it was sometime today, after this morning.

 To all in this thread: What people either forget or fail to understand is that The Catholic Church is not an absolute monarchy, but, rather, a feudal kingdom.

The Pope is absolute on certain matters [dogma], but he shares the governing of The Church with his princes [the Cardinals].  In other words: in matters regarding the soul, the Pope is the final word, as he has been chosen by God, but on any other matter, he and the cardinals share power.

The Church has been infiltrated very successfully by the Left [what some call the 'Super Force'].  They first took over the Jesuits and then spread their Evil from that base.  Pope John Paul The Great and the current Pontiff are from the faction that has been battling the Left within the RCC, but they can, and have been able to, do only so much because of the feudal structure of The Church.  And no Pope can seek to turn The Church into an absolute monarchy because it was Jesus, they believe, who created The Church and He did it based on the organizing principle of The Apostles.

 And even then, when it affects them, they aim up blaming the wrong perpetrator.

Their support for Ocare was not unanimous nor without reservations — and pointed to an interpretation of doctrine in which universal healthcare supported another Church tenent.
It, like everything else, is not a simple black/white thing.

And the Church (no church really) is going to support a political ideology wholeheartedly all the time, but writing them off all the time will most definitely make it difficult to get their support again in the future.

And Debbie Wasserman Schultz said all women should get free contraception.  Okay, can I have free whiskey and ice cream too?   Rick Santorum said he is not for restricting contraception.