Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA), a member of the Democratic leadership, pushed back Sunday on the conservative argument that President Obama’s contraception mandate violates religious liberties.
“I’m a Catholic. I think the Constitution got it right: Protect religious liberty,” Becerra said on NBC’s Meet The Press. “But if my Church wants to start being an insurance company, if my Church wants to be an Internet company, it doesn’t have the same religious freedoms to discriminate against women, not letting them become priests. And it shouldn’t have the same rights as it has as a Church to do business. So if it wants to be in the business of providing health insurance, it should do what every other health insurer must do under our laws.”
