The recent decision by the Obama administration to mandate that even organizations opposed to birth control on religious grounds are mandated to provide birth control information is, in my opinion, unconstitutional, and wrong.

ALthough I agree the government has the right to withold funding to organizations which do not carry out its policies equitably, especially if the motivation is a religious one, there is a big difference in forcing organizations to carry out policies they feel are immoral. IOTW, forcing the catholics to provide abortion or birth control counseling is just as wrong as forbidding secular clinics to provide it.

I am not opposed to abortion or birth control, and I have no religious feelings whatsoever on this issue, but I do believe that this is an intrusion on religious liberty, and objectionable on secular, humanistic grounds for that reason. The freedom to practice religion as one chooses must not be attacked by government, even if the religion is dead wrong.

There are some religious practices so extreme that I do believe the government has every right to intervene, such as clitoral circumcision, forced marriages, and denying education to young women. But I do not believe this is one of those.