Although some parts of the Republican party may be split regarding their standard bearer this fall, the party is united — along with much of the U.S. Catholic Church establishment — in denouncing a provision of the federal health care reform law that requires employer-sponsored health insurance to include contraceptive coverage at no additional charge.
As both local dailies reported on Tuesday, Bishop Lynch of the Diocese of St. Petersburg has issued a letter objecting to that provision that will be read aloud or placed in bulletins this Sunday at Catholic Masses throughout the Tampa Bay area.
And now Marco Rubio is getting into the act. The freshman U.S. Senator from Florida announced today that he has introduced the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 2012, a bill he says would repeal that mandate.
