The Catholic Church and Contraception

Ok, I understand that Catholic Church believes contraception is wrong. They look upon sex as necessary for procreation and ignore the idea of sex as entertainment.

I understand the position. I think it’s unrealistic, medieval and, given the world’s population just topped seven billion, idiotic but I know what it is.

Now let’s talk about the current uproar. Aside from the absurdity of a male dominated, and celibate males at that, organization making up rules about female contraception, we have the situation where the church hires non-Catholic employees to work in church affiliated institutions.

They have to. Even if employment discrimination wasn’t illegal, they would have to in order to get the mix of skills they need at a reasonable cost. It’s just a fact of life.

Similarly, they’re not going to attract the right people they need if they don’t provide reasonable benefits such as health care.

So the Church employs non-Catholics who do not share the view of the Catholic Church when it comes to contraception. So how is providing access to contraception through a third party health insurance company violating anyone’s religious freedom? If anything it’s supporting the religious freedom of the employees.

Catholic employees don’t have to use the contraceptive access if they don’t want to. It’s their choice. Non-Catholic employees should have the same choice.

In a secular society religion has no authority over anyone other than its own flock of sheep. It does have freedom of speech so it can try and persuade people that its view of morality is correct and people should follow it but it can’t force anyone.

In terms of a Catholic affiliated institution, since it hires non-Catholics, it’s an employer just like every other employer and needs to toe the line that applies to all employers.

Sounds to me like the church is asking for special privileges.