As for LGBT rights, recent court decisions are treating gays as a protected class and applying employment law on that base. If the bishops want to manage this, they need to get ENDA passed with some kind of exemption for ministry or the courts will enact a larger policy that will allow less elbow room. As for contraception, they are simply wrong. In the face of natural law evidence going the other way, they pulled the authority card. Their arguments have zero merit. It is no shock they are oppositional. That is what you do when you are wrong.