The Catholic bishops demand that corporate entities affiliated with their church be granted an exception to the rules governing employer provided health insurance. ONE of the rules is about access to contraception, but when considering an exception, lets widen our inquiry.
Catholics believe contraception is a SIN. They also believe that divorce is a sin, and remarriage is a sin. Am I crazy to suggest that the next exception on their health insurance list is to refuse to provide spousal coverage if the spouse is not the "first wife", or "first husband" ?
The bishops must believe that providing health insurance to a "second spouse" is condoning divorce. Divorce would be much less tempting if a person knew he could not provide health insurance to a second spouse. The religious exception would apply equally to non-Catholic employees, since the moral concern does not apply only to Catholics, same as the ban on contraception.
Maybe there is a KOS reader out there who is familiar with the earlier situation in Ireland, where the Church had the government enforce church doctrine on divorce and contraception.