Laura Hollis Recommend this article  I rarely find myself
disagreeing with Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute, but I
think he's obscuring his own point in the column he wrote for
the New York Post over the weekend.  In his article, entitled,
“Misconception,” he argues that “Republicans should stop
fighting against birth control and start battling government
control instead.” I don't know whether he's not listening to the
same people I am, or he's just not listening. Every Republican I
have heard speak - and I mean every single one - has made it
perfectly clear they don't give a damn whether anyone uses
contraception. Their objection is the government compulsion.
But because - in this particular case - the mandate happens to
violate a particular religion's (Catholicism's) tenets, there is
a lot of discussion about what those tenets are, and why the
Catholic Church takes the positions it does. That invariably
leads to arguments about whether that ought to be the Church's
position. Some have chosen to come to