The Deeply Misguided Contraception-Mandate Decision

The decision not to expand the narrow exemption from mandatory contraceptive coverage is disappointing, for me, on several levels.  As someone who believes that the healthcare law accomplishes many good goals, I think it is both unjust and strategically unwise for progressives to reject meaningful exemptions from such laws.  Among other things, the statute is now one step more vulnerable to being undercut or even repealed at the initiative of those angered or burdened by it.

Here's my recent piece from The Christian Century arguing that religious progressives "should support significant accommodations for religious beliefs--even those with which they disagree."