Religion and Politics

Why is the Catholic Church Going to Court?

The New Yorker’s Margaret Talbot finds the “decision of some forty-three Roman Catholic dioceses, schools, and social services to sue the Obama Administration” over the contraception coverage mandate “both baffling and dismaying.” Talbot proposes that the “larger question is who the plaintiffs are really speaking for.” Recently released survey data, which shows a vast majority of Catholic women have used or are currently using contraception, “suggests that many Catholic women simply do not believe that birth control is wrong,” writes Talbot.

Read at The New Yorker

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