This is a fucking surprise.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops denounced President Barack Obama's compromise over whether to require religiously affiliated institutions to provide contraception to female employees, saying the proposal raises "serious moral concerns," according to a statement posted on its website late Friday.

"Today's proposal continues to involve needless government intrusion in the internal governance of religious institutions, and to threaten government coercion of religious people and groups to violate their most deploy held convictions," the statement said.

First off, we all knew that the bishops wouldn't go for this, right? Contraception is inimical to the central value at the heart of the Catholic Church: the oppression of women.

The statement released by the Catholic Bishops conference said the proposal requires "careful moral analysis,"

CAREFUL MORAL ANALYSIS??????? Excuse me, but I'm not much interested in being schooled in moral analysis by a group that asserts a scruple against contraception but doesn't hesitate to transfer known child rapists around the country for fresh meat.