Danielle Tumminio: Is Birth Control Coverage Motivated by Religious Freedom or Religious Bullying?

The issue, then, is really about how Catholics treat non-Catholics. After all, presumably Catholics would not want birth control -- it's all the other folks who do. Which makes this a debate not about religious freedom but about how people of one faith care for those who do not share their beliefs.

Imagine, for a second, that this was an elementary school playground where one student was telling another what to believe, how to act.We would call that bullying.

there has to be a better way forward, and perhaps if we were able to really listen -- not to forward our own agenda but with willingness to change -- we might be able to find it.

 

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