{"id":26156,"date":"2012-02-07T10:47:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T17:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/07\/on-the-bishops-to-do-list.html"},"modified":"2012-02-08T11:05:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T18:05:34","slug":"on-the-bishops-to-do-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/07\/on-the-bishops-to-do-list.html","title":{"rendered":"On the Bishops&#39; to-do list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;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 &#8230; do what they&#39;re mostly, actually already doing (plus are required to do already in many states).  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F02%2FGoogle-ChromeScreenSnapz361-300x213.png' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/health\/2012\/02\/07\/420114\/many-catholic-universities-hospitals-already-offer-contraception-as-part-of-their-health-insurance-plans\/'>Many Catholic Universities, Hospitals Already Cover Contraception In Their Health Insurance Plans<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCatholic leaders and the GOP presidential candidates have intentionally distorted the Obama administration\u2019s new rule requiring employers and insurers to provide reproductive health benefits at no add&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;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 &#8230; do what they&#39;re mostly, actually already doing (plus are required to do already in many states). #ddtb Embedded Link Many Catholic Universities, Hospitals &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/07\/on-the-bishops-to-do-list.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On the Bishops&#39; to-do list&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,109,134,27],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-church-state","category-health-care","category-religion","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23461,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/05\/when-the-catholic-bishops-arent-behind-your-anti-abortion-measure.html","url_meta":{"origin":26156,"position":0},"title":"When the Catholic Bishops aren&#39;t behind your anti-abortion measure &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 5-Nov-11 12:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Granted, part of their motivation is that it possibly makes their own anti-abortion measures look bad, but in part it's because ... well, it's a crappy, overreaching, hubristic, theologically dubious, constitutionally questionable proposal. #ddtb Embedded Link Mississippi Catholic Bishop, Religious Leaders Denounce Personhood Anti-Abortion Bill This Tuesday, Mississippians will vote\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27460,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/19\/listening-to-the-bishops-is-mandatory-except-when-its-optional.html","url_meta":{"origin":26156,"position":1},"title":"Listening to the Bishops is Mandatory &#8230; 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