Here's how I look at it. Try to follow
along.
First, a completely imaginary case:
You're an election judge. Your job is
to provide ballots to people who come to vote. But now something
occurs to you, in a flash of overwhelming righteousness: Women who do
not cover their heads in public are shameful beings. When women with
uncovered heads come to the polls to vote, you do not acknowledge
their existence. Certainly you do not give them a ballot.
News flash: I have it in for you. You
have taken a job and then decided that the job is unworthy of you.
You will not besmirch yourself by doing what the job requires. I
demand you either find someone–an election clerk, perhaps–who can
handle the work that is beneath you, or you get out of the election
judge business.
Now to reality:
You are a church. But you have chosen
to get into non-churchy things, such as health care. And now you have
decided that a part of health care–providing women with
contraceptive services–will diminish your unfathomable holiness.
My stern advice: Find a way to
accommodate these women, or get out of health care.
If you have taken a job, and then
decided you are too noble to do the job, but will not give up the
job: To hell with you. The fist of your religious freedom is smashing
my face.
No rabbi or imam or bishop gets to
decide what health care women should get. (Women or anyone else, for
that matter.) Not in my America.
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