{"id":5954,"date":"2012-02-10T08:27:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T14:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=2256"},"modified":"2012-02-10T08:27:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T14:27:24","slug":"accommodation-for-for-religious-groups-regarding-birth-control-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/10\/accommodation-for-for-religious-groups-regarding-birth-control-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Accommodation&#8221; for for religious groups regarding birth control coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/139084699.html\">Strib<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Barack Obama will announce a plan to accommodate religious employers outraged by a rule that would require them to cover birth control for women free of charge, according to a person familiar with the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Obama was expected to make the announcement at the White House Friday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This could work out, because I can easily imagine a law suit by an employee who does not get the same coverage as some other employee in some similar job elsewhere, as well as  a law suit from, say, a school board member insisting that teachers\/staff in their school NOT be covered.  Since the 1st amendment is mainly to protect individuals and not institutions, this absurd patchwork of regulations would be reversed.<\/p>\n<p>Right? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Strib: President Barack Obama will announce a plan to accommodate religious employers outraged by a rule that would require them to cover birth control for women free of charge, according to a person familiar with the decision. Obama was expected to make the announcement at the White House Friday. This could work out, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/10\/accommodation-for-for-religious-groups-regarding-birth-control-coverage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Accommodation&#8221; for for religious groups regarding birth control coverage<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[280],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1y2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}