Dim Bulb: Joan Walsh

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Published May 24, 2012 4:00am EST | Updated November 4, 2023 5:42am EST



Who: Salon editor Joan Walsh

What: Said on MSNBC that Catholic institutions suing the Obama administration over the contraception mandate have “the idea of religious freedom backwards, frankly. They are imposing on the rest of the country’s religious freedom with this opposition to this mandate.”

Why it’s dim: Who is “imposing” if the Obama administration forces religious believers and institutions to do something to which they morally object?

Cure: Look up the word “mandate” in the dictionary.