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Hard to tell. 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 Obama on Contraception Coverage<\/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],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-church-state","category-health-care","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26410,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/15\/no-retreat-no-surrender-on-contraception.html","url_meta":{"origin":26219,"position":0},"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. 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I'd wondered, though, why they were protesting the idea of Catholic Church-owned institutions (universities, hospitals, bicycle stores) having to provide contraceptive coverage to their employees, but not protesting how individual Catholic business owners, not institutionally part of the Church, would have\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":26219,"position":3},"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":23981,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/22\/every-sperm-is-sacred-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":26219,"position":4},"title":"Every sperm is sacred","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 22-Nov-11 1:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"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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