Then there is the down to earth view.
Sometimes policy is made in the abstract and doesn't look at all the real world on the ground contingencies and scenarious that it affects as deeply as might be useful. Some policy thinking is at a think tank level and others comes from an investigative perspective.
Some scenarious where the HHS mandate seems ridiculous, for example are-
The parish that has an elementary school attached (many do) where all the teachers are either priests or nuns or women past child bearing age in their mid to late 50s and 60s.
Some insurance company has to raise premium prices on the school because now it has to cover contraception? Kinda silly don't you think. Unnecessary cost burden-why? What about a Catholic bookstore that is staffed by aging celibate monks? Premium prices have to be raised because the policy has to cover birth control, and the morning after Plan B? Something about the cost shifting that happens with mandates doesn't seem really logical much less fair.
What about the local catholic pregnancy center staffed by people who believe vehemently in promoting child bearing rather than child nuking? The have to buy insurance with raised premiums that covers abortofascients and contraception?
The 'accommodation' does not really solve anything if the costs are passed on to the objecting institution. And the costs can not be born by the government- so where does that leave us? I don't have the answer yet but I am thinking. The 'accommodation' was a good try but it doesn't really answer the objection.
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