The issue is the "HHS Mandate" - a decision by the Obama administration to use the most controversial powers of the new ObamaCare bureaucracy, to force private Catholic schools, hospitals, and other charitable institutions to cover such things as contraception, abortion-inducing drugs, and sterilization procedures in employee health-care plans, or face astronomical fines.
By forcing this issue - through an edict that compels people to buy something not only against their will, but in direct defiance of their conscience - Obama and company have squared their assault on the U.S. Constitution. ObamaCare itself is already being challenged successfully in court on point one: forcing citizens to buy any commercial product. By adding point two, they greatly enlarge the grounds for that challenge to religious freedom.
AM: I actually think Warren has a point here. People should, to the degree possible, be free to govern themselves irrespective of central government writ. Even though I am an atheist and think that the Christian stance on contraception and abortion is pretty dumb, I have to point out that people should still be free to govern themselves, even if they make choices I don't like.
Warren, a rather pompous pedant whose ego is as large as his vocabulary, typically annoys rather than informs. In the case of the above topic, I sadly have to agree with AM that Warren does make a a good point.
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