I hear a lot of people talk about religious freedom and its limiting by President Obama. There is a lot of precedent for limiting what a religious group can do. The big example is the Mormon belief in multiple wives.
Why do the majority of Mormons NOT practice polygamy? Because it was and is against the law, secular law.
The Mormons ended polygamy for most Mormons in 1890, although the church elders were not held to that. They don't expect polygamy to occur again until the "Second Coming".
Mormons only allowed African Americans full participation in the church in 1978. Until then it was believed that to be black was to bear the mark of Cain and that meant that blacks could not be redeemed. Now black folks are allowed in the church with full participation (although I can't understand why they do). Mormons I have known growing up in Arizona disliked black people and held them as inferior.
Anyway, religious organizations have bowed to secular authority before, so why is the Catholic Church so special? Or is it that the Rethugs think they have a divisive issue that will win them the presidency? It's the latter, of course, IMO.
Santorum and his cohorts would love to impose their special interpretations on all of us, especially on women. I don't know why so many religious folk abhor that fact that women might actually enjoy sex. The only religious group that I know of that recognizes that women enjoy sex and are entitled to it are Jews. Even the Ketubah requires a man to satisfy his wife sexually.
The Catholic Church, Mormons, and Santorum's kind or religious folk are afraid of women and seem driven to limit what they can do. It scares me, actually. If we don't work for candidates that actually like women as persons, we will wind up with a sanctimonious jerk for President.
So I'm in, President Obama, I'm in.