Nadler: Catholic Church ‘cannot impose their religious views’ on employees [VIDEO]

New York Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the ranking member of the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution told The Daily Caller that the Catholic Church “cannot impose their religious views” on employees by refusing to offer health plans that cover contraception, as required by the health care law.

TheDC asked a group of House Democrats supporting the mandate why they think the federal government has the power to tell Catholic institutions what to provide in employee health insurance plans.

“They [Catholics] cannot impose their religious views on thousands or millions of employees,” Nadler told TheDC on Capitol Hill.

“They have an exemption from these requirements for the church itself, for people who are working under the doctrine of the church – for priests, for nuns, for school teachers in catholic parochial schools.”

New York Rep. Nita Lowey responded, “Are we going to have every person delete from their insurance plan, provisions that they don’t use? No one is forcing anybody to use contraception.”

She continued, “We’re talking about requirements for the insurer.”

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