Religious Liberty & Distinctions | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: The question of funding contraception, regardless of religious nature, was settled in 2000 by the EEOC. Over the last few years we are only arguing about copays and whether institutional religious freedom rights are more important than individual rights. Are religious hierarchies legal people in the way corprorations are? I doubt it, although even if they are then they do so as employers and there the law is a bit clearer - both in terms of ministers and non-ministers. What is annoying is not when cake makers and photographers deny service, but when they become all self-righteous (and rude) about it. I suspect some are worried about what their straight customers think than their morals - and in places like DC no vendor cares.
What the Church really fears is not how gay marriage plays in its secular relations, but how the families of gay couples and priests think about it. I suspect the hierarchy is very worried that we are out in front of them on cultural change on this issue. Their suspicions are well grounded. Catholic identity on this issue is about to change. Identity should be about common celebration of the sacraments, not the agenda of the USCCB - which sadly intersects with the GOP all too easily. It should not. Nor should these questions be a device to make Protestants like us. If we live the Gospel, they will like us just fine.
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