New York Times & Aspen Public Radio

A Convenient Morality By FRANK BRUNI Published: February 4, 2013 271 Last week, the Obama administration proposed a further tweak to its rules about insurance coverage of contraception, trying to quiet religious organizations’ complaints that the edict tramples on their beliefs. Roman Catholic officials have been especially vociferous. Their moral conviction, they insist, cannot be slave to secular convention. Except, that is, when it works to their advantage. When it profits them. And this two-tracked approach was illustrated by another … Continued