{"id":26440,"date":"2012-02-16T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/16\/this-looks-like-mens-work.html"},"modified":"2012-02-17T06:38:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T13:38:40","slug":"this-looks-like-mens-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/16\/this-looks-like-mens-work.html","title":{"rendered":"This looks like men's work!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Darrell Issa is holding a big, important, flashy, politically charged meeting about the Adminstration's contraception mandate and the question of how it may affect religious freedom.<\/p>\n

And the witnesses testifying? All men. Because, according to Issa, it's not actually about contraception and women's health, but about religious freedom. And, big surprise, the witnesses are all religious types — male<\/i> religious types — that think just like Issa does on the subject.<\/p>\n

Classy! #ddtb<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +David Badash<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhere are the women? Only men are testifying at Republican Darrell Issa\u2019s congressional hearing on contraception.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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So Darrell Issa is holding a big, important, flashy, politically charged meeting about the Adminstration's contraception mandate and the question of how it may affect religious freedom. And the witnesses testifying? All men. Because, according to Issa, it's not actually about contraception and women's health, but about religious freedom. 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