{"id":128,"date":"2012-07-24T08:24:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T14:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/?p=7899"},"modified":"2012-07-24T08:24:36","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T14:24:36","slug":"how-an-evangelical-colleges-lawsuit-could-help-romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2012\/07\/how-an-evangelical-colleges-lawsuit-could-help-romney\/","title":{"rendered":"How an Evangelical College\u2019s Lawsuit Could Help Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Last week, Wheaton College, the alma mater of Billy Graham and the premier Christian liberal arts college in America, surprised many by joining the ranks of many Catholic higher-education institutions on Wednesday in filing a lawsuit to challenge the Obama administration\u2019s mandate that employers must provide contraception. 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