Playing the Princess: The Limits of Religious Freedom

...The U.S. Catholic bishops could have used the framework of “cooperation with evil” [a classic teaching of the Church] to analyze the weight of the burdens the contraception mandate placed on their religious liberty. But they didn’t. Instead, they claimed that even a requirement to notify insurance carriers of their objections to the contraception mandate counted as “substantial burden” under RFRA. As the brouhaha in Indiana shows, their “Princess and the Pea” strategy may well backfire politically. But more important, it has backfired pedagogically...

In other words, the Catholic bishops ignored their own church teachings in order to prop up Republicans.

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/playing-princess