Both Sides Expect Obama to Side with Bishops on Contraception Coverage<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So if a religiously affiliated institution (not a church, mind you — though I have my questions about that, too) were to require employees to sign a contract saying that they would not use any of their salary to purchase contraception, would that be legal? 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But the US Catholic Bishops might have lost their best bargaining opportunity. If they'd waited until Obama offered such a compromise, then declared it unacceptable, I'm sure he'd have compromised still further. Now, just maybe, he won't even try. #ddtb Embedded Link Bishops Reject Proposed Compromise with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26410,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/15\/no-retreat-no-surrender-on-contraception.html","url_meta":{"origin":23981,"position":2},"title":"No retreat, no surrender (on contraception)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 15-Feb-12 5:28am","format":false,"excerpt":"So, let's see if I have this straight:1. Consider a company owned by the Catholic Church. It might be a college, or a hospital, or whatever. It employs folks from a variety of backgrounds and faiths.2. The current mandate for minimal insurance plans from insurers, per the federal government, includes\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26244,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/09\/so-tell-me-again-who-obama-is-offending.html","url_meta":{"origin":23981,"position":3},"title":"So tell me again who Obama is offending?","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 9-Feb-12 1:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Ever since the whole contraception coverage kerfuffle, people have been gasping about how Obama is offending Catholics, and how it's sure to lose him the election.But given the rates at which Catholics use contraception, and given how Catholic laity respond in polls about this question, it's not at all clear\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26156,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/07\/on-the-bishops-to-do-list.html","url_meta":{"origin":23981,"position":4},"title":"On the Bishops' to-do list","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 7-Feb-12 10:47am","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm sure now that this news is out, the US Catholic Bishops will take steps to eliminate such coverage, per their fulminating over the religious oppression under government mandate that they ... do what they're mostly, actually already doing (plus are required to do already in many states). #ddtb Embedded\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&gadget=a&resize_h=100&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F02%2FGoogle-ChromeScreenSnapz361-300x213.png","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":26778,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/01\/senate-defeats-anti-contraception-bill.html","url_meta":{"origin":23981,"position":5},"title":"Senate defeats anti-contraception bill","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 1-Mar-12 10:28am","format":false,"excerpt":"Good for them in defeating the \"Blunt\" Amendment, even if it was only 51-48. #ddtb Embedded Link Senate defeats bill to reverse birth control rule - The Denver Post WASHINGTON\u2014The Senate has defeated a Republican effort to roll back President Barack Obama\u001bs policy on contraception insurance coverage.","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}