They can't speak out, but many of them agree that Catholic women should feel free to use commonly accepted birth control methods to help plan their families. Unofficially, church marriage counselors talk to us about birth control methods that the Catholic church hierarchy disapproves of. Decisions about child bearing are probably the most important and private decisions we ever make in our lives. No government should be allowed to dictate our choices. No religious hierarchy should be allowed to circumscribe our options.
Religious diversity is a critically important value in our society.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with with the leaders of religious institutions setting down and advocating their religious teachings. The religious freedoms in our country are based on individual freedoms. Each of us is free to set our own course, to believe as our consciences dictate, without government interference. Catholics originally came to this country, back before it was a country, to escape domination and persecution by governments controlled by other faiths. But now the church leaders want the Legislature to carve out an exempttion in the Women's Health and Wellness law that would allow continued discrimination against women who work for religious institutions.