Top Ten Catholic Teachings Santorum Rejects While Obsessing About Birth Control | RH Reality Check<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe right wing Republican politicians who have been denouncing the requirement that female employees have access to birth control as part of their health benefits as an attack on religious freedom com…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Santorum's robust, even strident, defense of Catholic doctrine over contraception is very nice … as long as one doesn't consider all the other teachings of the Church — regarding capital punishment, war, economic and social justice — that he chooses to ignore or speaks out against. 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Your local\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":23981,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/22\/every-sperm-is-sacred-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":26404,"position":2},"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? Then why give them a\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":26404,"position":3},"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":26260,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/10\/compromise-cave-let-on-contraception-coverage.html","url_meta":{"origin":26404,"position":4},"title":"Compromise Cave-let on Contraception Coverage","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 10-Feb-12 4:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The White House announced it would extend the contraception coverage exemption to religiously-affiliated institutions (like some hospitals and universities), as the US Catholic Bishops have been demanding.On the other hand, supposedly in such cases the insurance companies will be required to offer such free coverage directly to the employees, so\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":26269,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/10\/yes-please-lets-ramp-up-the-contraception-zaniness-to-12-thanks.html","url_meta":{"origin":26404,"position":5},"title":"Yes, please, let's ramp up the contraception zaniness to 12, thanks","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 10-Feb-12 5:06pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I was wondering when someone would begin to feel some religious compassion for those feeling, breathing, ensoulled insurance companies that might have their personal faiths shaken and God-given religious freedoms offended by having to offer plans that include contraception, or anything else that morally or religiously bothers them.And so I'm\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":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26404","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=26404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47809,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26404\/revisions\/47809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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