freedom and i hope it will be reversed by the court. there, john, the speaker is smart enough not to support corporations but to defend catholic charities. the danger of this argument is some organizations will stop offering health care if they can. i don t know if that s legal now. is it? is that one alternative? if you can t discriminate in what coverage you offer, you just don t offer any. you d be faced with huged to. what the court is taking up right now is, in fact, not so much to do with what the previous controversy and the catholic question. this is really a question about corporates about how corporations are defined. is a corporation a person? that is the question. that s the question. and in fact, the appeals court that ruled in favor of the company in this case that said it didn t, that it shouldn t have to provide health coverage plans that included contraception said that its reasoning was based on citizens
reversed by the court. there, john, the speaker is smart enough not to support corporations but to defend catholic charities. the danger of this argument is some organizations will stop offering health care if they can. i don t know if that s legal now. is it? is that one alternative? if you can t discriminate in what coverage you offer, you just don t offer any. you d be faced with huged to do that. what the court is taking up right now is, in fact, not so much to do with what the previous controversy and the catholic question. this is really a question about corporates about how corporations are defined. is a corporation a person? that is the question. that s the question. and in fact, the appeals court that ruled in favor of the company in this case that said it didn t, that it shouldn t have to provide health coverage plans that included contraception said that its reasoning was based on citizens united.
nation. the catholic question is something we have bandied about a lot and each time we talk about it, i try and repeat the refrain catholics are not a monolithic voting bloc. do you think paul ryan can help mitt romney make up ground among catholic voters? a pew poll out this month shows overall, president obama has a nine point lead over mitt romney among catholics. among white catholics, mitt romney has a five point lead. i do think ryan can help with the catholic vote. he s a very devout, almost evangelical breed of catholic. it s interesting when you say it s not monolithic. you have to look at joe biden and paul ryan, you see two different generations of catholicism right there. somebody like paul ryan will be very, very popular in suburban areas where there s sort of a newer catholicism that really is much more focused on pro-life issues, less focused on poverty issues. if it is a poverty issue, they want to solve it themselves within the church. they don t want the government