On the Square Today

James K. Fitzpatrick on a compromise that would have cost President Obama nothing :

Obama’s accommodation proposes that Church authorities who run hospitals, schools, and other facilities will be entitled to tell their employees that the health care insurance provided by the Church does not cover contraceptives, the “morning after pill,” or sterilization, but that the health insurance company that covers the Catholic institution will be free to contact the employees of that institution and inform them that they are entitled to “free” coverage of these things from the insurance company in question. It is this “cut-out” of the Catholic institution that Sr. Keehan contends protects “religious liberty.”