The vice president was also flatly dishonest in his statement about how the administration’s signature health-care bill affects religious institutions, saying: “With regard to the assault on the Catholic Church, let me make it absolutely clear: No religious institution, Catholic or otherwise, including Catholic Social Services, Georgetown Hospital, Mercy, any hospital — none has to either refer contraception, none has to pay for contraception, none has to be a vehicle to get contraception in any insurance policy they provide. That is a fact. That is a fact.” No, it is not. No, it is not.