Actually, I may have been a bit naive to think that this whole uproar was about either religious freedom or economic freedom. This whole uproar is, after all, just a repeat of the earlier uproar when free birth control coverage was first mandated. There was no religious freedom issue at stake there, the conservatives were in an uproar anyhow. Even granting that they generally oppose all economic regulation on principle, it was a bit extreme.
And given Rush Limbaugh's comments and the number of people who have jumped to his support, I can only assume that the real issue is this. It is not anger over churches and other religious institutions being asked to subsidize behavior they consider immoral. It is not employers or insurance companies being asked to subsidize it. It is not even the existence of immoral behavior in the first place.
It is that they, Rush Limbaugh and his cohorts, are being asked to subsidize immoral behavior, i.e., sex outside of marriage, initially in the form of higher premiums, and later in the form of taxpayer subsidies. Remember, these are people who speak in terms of how much tax they pay, but really ultimately mean they don't want their taxes to go for that, whatever that is.
Um, hasn't anyone explained to these guys that married women use birth control, too?
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