Fox News contributor blames contraception mandate on ‘extraordinary creeping paganism’

Pagans and uppity feminists are responsible for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ 2012 contraceptive rule, according to Fox News contributor Liz Trotta.

In a Sunday speech on Fox News attacking the Affordable Care Act, Trotta described the so-called contraception mandate as a “brazen violation of the separation between church and state.”

The HHS mandate requires employers to provide health insurance plans that cover FDA-approved contraceptive drugs and devices at no cost. Catholic officials have said the regulation violates the religious freedom of business owners who have moral objections to the use of contraception.