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He says he thinks a solution can be found to the deepening controversy over birth-control coverage.

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Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that he thinks a solution can be found to the deepening controversy over birth-control coverage.

The furor escalated this week over a new administration rule that exempts churches and other houses of worship ? but not religious-affiliated institutions ? from a requirement in the health care law that all employers cover contraception as part of their insurance benefits.

In his first public comments on the decision, Biden told Cincinnati radio station WLW that he is ?determined to see that this gets worked out, and I believe we can work it out.?

Biden, the nation?s first Catholic vice president, was among the top aides who had warned President Barack Obama that the decision could be politically explosive, particularly with Catholics, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.

?As a practicing Catholic, I am of the view that this can be worked out and should be worked out. And I know the president feels the same way,? Biden said.

As the issue has heated up in recent days, Obama has stayed quiet. When reporters shouted questions to him Thursday, he declined to answer. ?Come on, guys,? Obama said.

Biden said there has been ?a lot of misunderstanding? from people who don?t know that the rule doesn?t take effect for more than a year. Still, he repeated, the administration will engage in a ?significant attempt to work this out.?

New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said earlier Thursday that he is ?unhappy? with the president?s decision and ?skeptical? of the administration?s offers to work out a compromise.

Feb. 9, 2012 - 6:28 PM ESTNot even republicans want the President to change this rule and women and Catholics overwhelmingly support the president. The same law exists in 28 states now, and the church businesses (not the churches themselves) complies with it in those states already.

So if there is any working out to do, it will have to come from the church which, apparently, is juicing up the CPAC attendance this week, including the attendance by white supremacists.

?I think this week?s outrage over the Komen decision should be a warning to the Republican party about how quickly there was a mass outrage over further and further attacks on general women?s health,? Kellie Ferguson, executive director of Republican Majority for choice, told me Wednesday. ?You could see the same backlash on attacks on contraception.? [...]

?For the last number of years, we in the pro-choice community in general?and we specifically as Republicans?have been saying as this pandering to a sort of social conservative faction of voters continues, you?re going to see the line pushed further and further and further,? she said. ?And we?re now crossing the line from discussion of when we should regulate abortion to when we should now regulate legal doctor-prescribed medications like birth control, which is woven in the fabric of society as an acceptable medication.?

The issue of covering contraceptives in health care plans has Catholic bishops in an uproar. Let's try to talk through this in a calm, measured manner.

Feb. 9, 2012 - 6:31 PM ESTNext, Republicans will want to abolish anti-polygamy laws, since they interfere with the religious right of Mormons to have several wives. If the Catholic Church can have a dispensation from laws was which apply to all Americans, then Mormons have the religious right to polygamy.

By siding with the radical right stand of the Catholic clergy (and it's only Catholic clergy, the pedophiles, that have a problem with this, not Catholic congregations - the People of God, according to Vatican II is the congregations, not the clergy), Boehner, Cantor, McConnell, and the other radical right wing Republicans are also siding with polygamy for Mormons, a matter of religious freedom and conscience, which has been illegal for over a century.

Boehner, Cantor, and McConnell had better be prepared to introduce a bill reinstating polygamy if they want to play the religious freedom card.

Feb. 9, 2012 - 7:00 PM ESTIt looks like Vice President Biden will not be on the ticket this go-round, whether he wants it that way or not.

Feb. 9, 2012 - 7:33 PM ESTJoe Biden cannot compromise as he does not understand the word. "We The People " cannot depend on Joe Biden as he is at a loss !!!!

Feb. 9, 2012 - 7:59 PM ESTBIDEN and the rest of the Democrats needs to understand that every decision is not based on your political belief or religious belief. It is called CHOICES. BIDEN and the rest of the NATION has to UNDERSTAND WE THE PEOPLE and OUR NATION are fighting to keep from being STRIPPED OF CHOICES. DEMOCRATS HOLD THE LINE. Visit http://nldrecognition.wordpres... and continue to endorse INTELLIGENCE.

Feb. 9, 2012 - 8:03 PM ESTThis will not end well........but remember, the Dems still control the NFM (non-Fox media), and they are openly instructing their lackeys on how to spin the line......This AM, Mika The Sweater Girl was openly tweeting with Queen Valarie (the real first lady) on talking points that she then read aloud on Morning Joe (sad how a once good man would sell his soul to the MSNBC loons).....

Feb. 9, 2012 - 8:09 PM ESTThe Catholic bishops sanctioned child rape through their silence and through their protection of the molesters by moving them from parish to parish. They have no authority left. The bishops and the priest-molesters should be in jail. But they're not. Because they, in fact, get special treatment in this country. So don't tell me that the church is being stomped on. It is the citizens of this country who have been and who are still being stepped on by the churches in this country.

Feb. 9, 2012 - 8:16 PM ESTMaypos said: "Make this march and picket a talking point and rallying cry at CPAC !!!!" _______________________________________________________________________ Yeah, when you have nothing else, I guess this phony issue will have to suffice. I watched a bit of CPAC today. Wow, lame speaker, ie Herman "word-salad" Cain, and the most unfunny "comedian" ever. The worst part: the audience actually appeared to be entertained. Whatever!

Feb. 9, 2012 - 8:23 PM ESTMurphy claimed: "Next, Republicans will want to abolish anti-polygamy laws, since they interfere with the religious right of Mormons to have several wives."

Actually, polygamy is legal in most of the world -- but Mormons in those countries are prohibited from practicing it by the Church, legal or not.

Of course not -- it's going to cost Okole MILLIONS of votes. Even if none of those people give their votes to the Republican, simply removing them from Okole will cost him the election.

The Dems here in Nevada are worried that it's going to stick to them, too. Nothing official has been said by the Party leaders here, but the lower-level operatives have spent the last several days working overtime to try to distance their bosses from B-Student Barack.

Feb. 9, 2012 - 8:57 PM ESTThis man wants people to compromise on principles, morals and values. Have you no shame VP Biden? Tell you what, how about you compromise your own standards and leave the rest of us alone~!

Feb. 9, 2012 - 8:57 PM ESTObama did not lie to Dolan, he stated he would "work with" the church on its concerns and the church would get "most" of what it wanted. The church in of itself is exempt from the requirement; however, its businesses such as hospitals and universities are not. Therefore, Dolan got what he wanted. He does not get to use government to force people working in church businesses, many of whom are not catholic, to do the church bidding. Dolan is off to a very bad start. I don't see him condemning the white supremacists at CPAC which he is clearly trying to pump.