On February 16, 2012, the Boston Herald wrote:
U.S. Sen. Scott Brown has co-sponsored a bill that would allow health plans to deny coverage both for contraception and any service that violates the planners’ beliefs.
It was a huge mistake.
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Now Scott Brown, who has so skillfully managed a reasonable and across-the-aisle Senate dance, has sided with nuts and the “intrinsic evil” set.
Surely he’s not sided with Catholic lay people. Many, if not most of them, have ignored the bishops on contraception since 1968, when the church first weighed in against it.
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But it seems so off the reservation for a terribly likeable senator with broad bipartisan support who has, at least up to now, brilliantly read the mood around here. No matter how he explains this latest move, underneath it all there’s an unspoken message: There is something morally wrong with a loving husband and wife using contraception to prevent pregnancy.
That’s crazy.
Read the full column here.
Published: Feb 16, 2012