Can someone please explain to me the war on religion that Dems are waging?

[CBHagman]

13. There's been some rather heated rhetoric about contraception coverage in the Affordable Care Act.

Here's the story:

http://www.startribune.com/local/138538089.html

The new regulations were announced last month by the Department of Health and Human Services as part of an effort to guarantee that women receive free "preventive" healthcare services, including cervical cancer screening, breast pumps — and contraception. They require employers to include those services in their employee health insurance plans by August.

Religious institutions can qualify for an exemption if the services violate their beliefs, but not if they employ large numbers of people who do not share those beliefs. Thus, a Catholic hospital or university that employs largely non-Catholic workers must provide free contraception in its employees' health insurance, even though birth control violates Catholic doctrine.

The announcement of the rule change provoked outrage from evangelical Christians, Orthodox Jews and other religious denominations. No voice was louder than that of the Catholic bishops, whose president, Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan of New York, called the rules "un-American" and a "violation of conscience."

Full disclosure: I'm a Catholic, the powers that be in my diocese are making a huge stink about this, and I feel betrayed because they only summon their moral outrage selectively -- to oppose gay marriage and abortion, for instance, but not to advocate for, say, universal health care, though the Catholic Church's position is that health care is a right, not a privilege.