{"id":194,"date":"2012-10-01T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=194"},"modified":"2012-10-01T21:04:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T01:04:00","slug":"bush-appointed-judge-upholds-obama-administrations-birth-control-coverage-rules-thinkprogress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Bush-Appointed Judge Upholds Obama Administration&#8217;s Birth Control Coverage Rules | ThinkProgress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2012\/10\/01\/931671\/bush-appointed-judge-rejects-catholic-employers-challenge-to-birth-control-access-rules\/\">Bush-Appointed Judge Upholds Obama Administration&#8217;s Birth Control Coverage Rules | ThinkProgress<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>The crux of the argument, from the beginning, is reenforced by the Judge:<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Federal religious freedom law] is a shield, not a sword. <i>It protects  individuals from substantial burdens on religious exercise that occur  when the government coerces action one\u2019s religion forbids, or forbids  action one\u2019s religion requires; <b>it is not a means to force one\u2019s religious practices upon others<\/b>. <\/i> [It] does not protect against the slight burden on religious exercise  that arises when one\u2019s money circuitously flows to support the conduct  of other free-exercise-wielding individuals who hold religious beliefs  that differ from one\u2019s own.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush-Appointed Judge Upholds Obama Administration&#8217;s Birth Control Coverage Rules | ThinkProgress The crux of the argument, from the beginning, is reenforced by the Judge: [Federal religious freedom law] is a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=194\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bush-Appointed Judge Upholds Obama Administration&#8217;s Birth Control Coverage Rules | ThinkProgress&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reproductive-rights"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}