The whole problem right there

The idea that a powerful religious institution, which itself is morally compromised, can think that letting other people do what they want threatens their own religious freedom.  

That free people might want contraceptives is somehow an "assault" on you?   In what world does enabling someone else's freedom thereby whittle down your own?

The problem with heirarchies is that they want to rule by edict, but, in a democratic society, people expect to be persauded, and resist being ordered.  This is not the middle ages.