{"id":12143,"date":"2012-02-10T12:21:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T17:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12143"},"modified":"2012-02-10T12:21:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T17:21:25","slug":"its-all-smoke-and-mirrors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12143","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s All Smoke And Mirrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Pavlich at <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/katiepavlich\/2012\/02\/10\/no_white_house_not_compromising_on_birth_control_mandate\">Townhall.com<\/a>\u00a0posted an article this morning about the Obama Administration&#8217;s non-compromise on the latest healthcare directive from Health and Human Services. Yes, I said non-compromise.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama Administration&#8217;s definition of a compromise is to still require religious institutions to provide insurance covereage for procedures that violate their religious principles.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;a &#8220;compromise&#8221; that allows religious employers to opt out of <em>paying<\/em> for providing birth control to women, but will still be required to <em>provide<\/em> contraception. What this means is, insurance companies will pick up the tab for contraception, but religious employers are still required to provide contraception through insurance plans to their employees, despite the move being against religious beliefs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is all smoke and mirrors. Under the compromise, religious institutions are still required to ignore their basic beliefs and provide coverage, they just don&#8217;t have to pay for it. That is not a compromise. Also, why is the federal government requiring\u00a0a religious organization to ignore their religious beliefs in order to comply with any law?<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=e0a2a8c6-09fd-4d3b-ab41-ae097cdf4d2e\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Pavlich at Townhall.com\u00a0posted an article this morning about the Obama Administration&#8217;s non-compromise on the latest healthcare directive from Health and Human Services. Yes, I said non-compromise. The Obama Administration&#8217;s definition of a compromise is to still require religious institutions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12143\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2117,2118,459,1025,660,135,2119,211],"class_list":["post-12143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birth-control","tag-contraception","tag-employment","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-obama-administration","tag-townhall-com","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12145,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12143\/revisions\/12145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}