{"id":21070,"date":"2013-11-27T17:59:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T22:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21070"},"modified":"2013-11-27T17:59:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T22:59:47","slug":"around-the-edges-of-the-supreme-court-case-regarding-the-contraception-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21070","title":{"rendered":"Around The Edges Of The Supreme Court Case Regarding The Contraception Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/2013\/11\/27\/obamacare-religious-liberty-and-a-crucial-supreme-court-showdown\/\">Commentary Magazine<\/a> posted an article today about the latest challenge to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">ObamaCare<\/a> that is headed to the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Supreme Court of the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8907083333,-77.0043444444&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8907083333,-77.0043444444 (Supreme%20Court%20of%20the%20United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Supreme Court<\/a>. The article examines the approach that the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Left-wing politics\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Left-wing_politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">political left<\/a> and those that support ObamaCare will probably take in arguing the case.<\/p>\n<p>The article states:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Indeed, while liberal activists will repeatedly try to cast this in the mold of the fictional \u201c<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"War on Women\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/War_on_Women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">war on women<\/a>,\u201d their own arguments reveal just how far-reaching a definitive ruling on this would be for <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">American<\/a> religious and political practice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;So this is much more than a fight over birth control, or even health insurance. It\u2019s about two fundamentally different views on American constitutional freedoms. Conservatives want those freedoms to be expansive and protected, as the Founders did. <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Liberal Party (UK)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liberal_Party_%28UK%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Liberals<\/a> want those freedoms to be curtailed lest the citizenry get greedy or the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Democracy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Democracy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">democratic process<\/a> imperil the state\u2019s coercive powers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The Founders saw religious freedom as elemental to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Political freedom\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Political_freedom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">personal liberty<\/a> in America. But they were not alone in thinking that unimpeded <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Worship\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Worship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">religious worship<\/a> was a guard against an overly ambitious or arrogant national government.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If we lose our spiritual foundation as a country, we will also be in danger of losing our freedom.<\/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\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=83b45d48-3a2f-4b4f-9deb-3c50d7e6eea6\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary Magazine posted an article today about the latest challenge to ObamaCare that is headed to the Supreme Court. The article examines the approach that the political left and those that support ObamaCare will probably take in arguing the case. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21070\">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":[97,6675,6674,7,2572,274,285,276],"class_list":["post-21070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-commentary","tag-liberals","tag-obamacare","tag-patient-protection-affordable-care-act","tag-supreme-court","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21070","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=21070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21071,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21070\/revisions\/21071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}