I have been thinking very seriously about the current flap over the provision in the new health care law concerning contraceptives.
The law requires employers to provide contraception coverage in their group medical insurance. Some religious organizations whose beliefs prohibit their adherents from using contraceptives are complaining that this violates their first-amendment rights. That is pure horsebleep.
Congress is not passing a law respecting the establishment of religion, nor is it passing a law that says everybody has to use contraceptives. It just says coverage has to be available if it is wanted.
So, let's consider, just for example, one of the complainers -- the Roman Catholic Church. If all the employees in their churches and schools and hospitals are good Catholics, then no claim would ever be filed for birth-control pills, now would it?
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