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by David Badash on February 15, 2012

“I’m sorry but I find the protectors of child rapists preaching to women about contraception to be a moral obscenity. When all the implicated bishops and the Pope resign, ther replacements will have standing to preach.”

So said Andrew Sullivan today, discussing the Church’s opposition to the Obama administration’s requirement that all employers — even, yes, religious ones — offer free contraception services to their employees. The updated compromise makes Obama look like the only adult in the room.

Here’s the full quote:

I think the revised compromise will help him even more – and the Bishops’ refusal to accept it will hurt them even more. And I think this will be particularly true among Catholics who, like me, regard abortion as far more morally troubling than contraception. Because many of us support contraception…