{"id":1031,"date":"2013-12-06T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/12\/will-justices-give-corporations-a-soul-too.html"},"modified":"2013-12-06T12:34:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T12:34:00","slug":"will-justices-give-corporations-a-soul-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/12\/will-justices-give-corporations-a-soul-too.html","title":{"rendered":"Will Justices Give Corporations a Soul, Too?"},"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><div style=\"line-height: 24px;margin: 0px;padding: 0px 0px 18px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">Private businesses are trying to block Obamacare on religious grounds? What do companies worship besides, perhaps, the almighty dollar?\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\">That\u2019s the question at the heart of two conflicting rulings from lower courts that the Supreme Court has decided to take up in its second constitutional showdown over President Barack Obama\u2019s Affordable Care Act.<\/span><br><span style=\"background-color: white;font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\"><br><\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">Since the law also known as Obamacare was passed, dozens of Christian employers have challenged its birth-control mandate that requires employers to provide health insurance coverage for FDA-approved contraception.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\">Abortion rights opponents believe some of the allowed contraceptive methods block fertilized eggs from implanting in a woman\u2019s uterus. That\u2019s disputed by other research findings that the methods in question actually work before fertilization occurs.<\/span><br><span style=\"background-color: white;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\"><br><\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\">To placate such objections, the Obama administration has changed the requirement to allow explicitly religious organizations and some other nonprofits to opt out of paying for insurance directly, passing the costs on to their insurance provider instead.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;line-height: 24px;padding: 5px 5px 18px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsadvance.com\/opinion\/columnists\/page_clarence\/article_b939a626-5d26-11e3-a517-001a4bcf6878.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private businesses are trying to block Obamacare on religious grounds? 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