text: This fight over "religious liberty" is really the bishops' acknowledgment that they have utterly failed in convincing their flock that birth control is evil. No amount of free contraceptives would entice Catholics to obtain them if they were convinced that artificial birth control is wrong. Of course the bishops have failed in this respect, since the teaching itself is a miserable failure. So every time I hear them bemoan their threatened "religious liberty" I actually hear them wail, "nobody believes us anymore, we have no more credibility."