So why does the religious freedom of the Catholic Bishops trump the rights of workers who EARN the

[yellowcanine]

benefits? The bishops make it sound as if the benefits are owned by the Catholic employers. They aren't. It is not their money. The benefits are owned by the workers who earned them. How is this different from a Jewish or Muslim employer telling their employees that they can't buy pork with their salary?

[1ProudAtheist]

1. It Doesn't

Here is a particularly pertinant Supreme Court Decision. Note the "conservative" justice who penned the decision.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0494_0872_ZO.html

[kestrel91316]

2. No difference, except the relative levels of hubris and perceived

entitlement on the part of Christian fundies vs Muslims or Jews.

[GoCubsGo]

3. Good question.

Because they're hypocrites.

[Skidmore]

4. Preserves a 2000 yr old PR campaign

that one man in a scarlet robe has sole access to God on behalf of all humans. Inheritors of the corruption of the Roman Empire institutionalized for generations and now rapidly becoming anachronistic.

[Old Troop]

5. The first is in the constitution's first amendment; the other isn't mentioned.

[yellowcanine]

6. So the religious rights of workers are not protected by the Constitution as well?

Only if you are a Bishop? It is the workers buying the insurance with money they EARNED. Neither the benefits nor the money to pay for the benefits belong to the Bishops. So it is not their call to say whether the benefits can cover contraception.

[provis99]

7. I don`t see anywhere in the Constitution

where it says the religious have the right to impose their views on the non-religious.

[EC]

8. Better question

Why does the church now make our laws?

[Brettongarcia]

9. And? What about Protestant employees, whose religion allows contraception and abortion?

The Catholic Church gets to impose its religion on us?