Catholic (Un)Cultured by MSW. MGB: Actually, the Taco Bell argument can be applied to Catholic Universities, Hospitals and Charities, which are mostly about other things than teaching the doctine on contraception. Indeed, in some such universities, I suspect that honest teaching reveals that the Church is actually wrong. I know in my days in minor seminary Ethics (which pre-law students also took - although business ethics might have been a better choice), we were told that life could not begin at conception because of the possibility of twinning - at least under Aristotelean ethics.
More importantly, the view that employers should be preserved from paying for any employee benefit or activity they find immoral opens a slippery slope allowing them to fire smokers or in other ways interfere with employee rights to be left to their own consciences, which are as or more important than those of their employers. There was a day when the Church was all about employee rights.
Finally, Bishop Blaire's argument should be taken further. This lawsuit should not have been filed - first because it is not ripe until the final rule is issued and second because they are likely funding it from donations made from contributors to annual lenten appeals. Luckily, my diocese did not join in the case. If it had, I would be canceling my pledge because they did not ask me first. I doubt most donors or people in the pews would agree with this lawsuit. This is another reason why Church governance on such matters needs to be moved away from clergy and to non-profit boards responsible to the faithful.
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