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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Take a step back -- in the weeds.

The Church's opposition is to the government mandating something which is against their religious beliefs.  If there was a mandate with an exception there wouldn't be a problem.  But the "accomodation" really isn't an accomodation, just double speak.

For that reason your example is all off.  [b]The govnerment doesn't mandate that you go to CVS to buy toothpaste.[/b][/quote]

OP again.  I think that has to be the distinction.  It just struck me that once the mandate was changed so that the employer is providing the contraceptives only indirectly through premiums (I know they haven't figured out what to do with self-funded plans yet), it's a little bit more like subsidizing other people's contraceptives when I buy toothpaste at CVS.  I run in to my priest at Safeway and 7/11, and it just struck me that Catholics already participate in an economy that includes things the Church teaches are immoral.  It's pretty much unavoidable.[/quote]

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