Limbaugh, the Catholic Church, and Ms Fluke

For anyone interested in the brouhaha now going on over the Rush Limbaugh's crude and perhaps intemperate put down of Sandra Fluke over her testimony before a p.r. stunt masquerading as a committee hearing held by democrats, this op ed by a former female student of Georgetown Law School, puts the whole issue in perspective.   Ms Cathy Ruse makes the point that after stripping away all of the peripheral and largely inconsequential side issues, e.g. Limbaugh's description of Ms Fluke, Ms Flukes age and political affiliation, the setup committee hearing by democrats, you are left with the larger point of Fluke's testimony: she wants the government to insure that her school's insurance policy includes contraception pills in order that she can have consequence free sex while attending law school.  Georgetown Law school belongs to Georgetown University, a Catholic university, does not want to pay for some product that flies in the face of their religious beliefs which contraception or birth control pills do.  Pretty simple issue, made unusually complicated by the introduction of the words "slut" and "prostitute" by Rush Limbaugh, and the political posturing by democrats.