Catholic Leaders: Providing Birth Control to People in Need Raises "Serious Moral Concerns" [Religion]

Well, this isn’t exactly surprising. Under pressure from the religious right, Barack Obama made a concession about birth-control insurance coverage — while religious employers will not have to offer free contraceptives to workers, the insurers themselves will have to. It’s a compromise he shouldn’t have had to make in the first place, and Catholic Church officials (along with prominent Republic leaders) are being dicks about it, anyway. More »