For anyone who believes that the battle over the Department of Health and Human Services' "contraception mandate" is simply the Catholic Church vs. the Obama administration, consider Wheaton College.
Last month, the Christian liberal arts college in Wheaton, Ill., joined Catholic University in a lawsuit filed against HHS. Numerous Catholic organizations have already brought suit to challenge the requirement that private employers offer contraception coverage to their employees as a standard health insurance benefit. These organizations — many of which self-insure — believe that subsidizing or facilitating the use of contraception would violate a core teaching of Catholic doctrine. But last month, the Christian liberal arts college in Wheaton, Ill., joined the lawsuit.
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