Regardless of your religion or lack thereof, regardless of the transgressions of priests of any church, regardless of what YOU think....
...the government should stay out of religious matters. Obama has stepped on his own dick.
I hope he loses ALL of the Catholic votes on this matter. He is no different from the Chinese ruler telling his people they can have only one child per family...this after a history of killing off MILLIONS of citizens.
Obama's "compromise" is nothing but a shell game regarding who pays for something the church doesn't want to support.
The Church's position is a lie. Catholic businesses have been complying with state versions of this same requirement for years.
There is no 'conscience' or 'doctrine' prohibition to this in the Catholic Church, period.
The more this issue drags on, the more the general public will see that. And since the general public is already strongly on the President's side for the insurance in the first place,
Obama has this issue by the balls. He cannot help but win, in the long run.