Notre Dame has catastrophically failed in educating these students.
1. Their statement might be arguable in the Baptist Church, where belief is a more personal decision, still weak but arguable, but Catholic Church Doctrine is defined by the Church Hierarchy, and it is unambiguous on contraception.
2. Freedom of religion is a God-given right (or for Atheists a natural right), and such rights take absolute precedence over personal desires or conveniences that are in fashion. If Sandra Fluke and her followers want $3,000 worth of condoms each (just how fast can they go through 42,000 condoms?), they can pay for them with their own money or get the men standing in line for their services to pay the usual and customary rates for their own entertainment.
3. Do these people not understand that compelling others to pay for individual instances of what they see as the murder of unborn children qualifies as casus belli? Are they intentionally trying to provoke a second civil war, or are they really that stupid?
They're not stupid, just typical narcissistic types with a totalitarian agenda. Such folks always end up believing their own propaganda.
Look at the Town Hall meetings after BarryCare was first passed. Consider just how many of the idiots who voted for that horrible pile of blank pages interspersed with violations of the Constitution were shocked when people were upset rather than falling at their feet and thanking them. Narcissists always surround themselves with people who know they can't handle the truth which just compounds their lack of contact with reality.
I'm sure a few of the democrat fascists are just as violence prone and insane as the Colorado shooter and have fantasies of a Civil War, but for the most part, they just don't believe that there are enough people in the country who disagree with them for it to ever come to that. They think all the disasters they've created have been spectacular successes compared to what would have happened had they not put their vision of socialist paradise in place.