You may have applauded the joint effort by Catholic bishops and evangelical Protestants in opposing the HHS mandate to provide birth control and abortifacients to hospital, university, and social agency employees, but to Martin Marty, it was a case of “radical embrace of raw political power by Evangelical pastors massed in militancy to join Catholics in reaction.”
This is the presumed detached observer talking (in “Sightings” for the day, “Protestant Accommodation”) and this is how he sees it. Read what he says and see if he hasn’t tipped his hand with this colorful language.
Blithe Spirit 
Mr. Marty is incorrect from the get-go: the bishops’ response today would be a surprise to any 1965 RipVan Winkle unless he also had dementia. As heard recently at a gathering of Catholics, “We’ve been waiting forty years for the bishops to show some backbone!”
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Quite so.
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