"A Wisconsin state law is forcing the Madison (Wis.) Catholic Diocese this month to begin offering its employees insurance coverage for birth control.
However, a diocesan spokesman said employees will be warned against using the benefit and that open defiance of Catholic teaching on the issue could ultimately lead to termination.
St. Mary's Hospital in Madison has notified employees that it, too, soon will be required for the first time to cover contraception.
Both entities sought to get around the mandate by becoming self-insured, but the costs proved prohibitive.
The law, which took effect Jan. 1, requires all commercial insurance policies with a drug benefit to cover prescription contraceptives. Self-insured policies are exempt."
WCF Courier
I don't know how they can justify this! I don't care what the state says, the Church must not obey an immoral law. Period. I don't care what the government threatens or does, the Church absolutely has to defy it.
What, the Church is going to fire someone that takes advantage of the coverage? Really? If they're willing to start that fight with the state why not just fight the contraception requirement to begin with? If the Church accepts the idea that the state can force it to cover contraception then they have ceded the power to control the faith to the state anyway.
Where is Rome??!!
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