{"id":2289,"date":"2012-03-10T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/03\/what-war-on-religion-2.html"},"modified":"2012-03-10T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T16:37:00","slug":"what-war-on-religion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/03\/what-war-on-religion-2.html","title":{"rendered":"What War on Religion?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

by Rev. Richard Cizik
Huffington Post<\/p>\n

The fierce backlash from some evangelical Christian leaders to President Obama\u2019s sensible decision to cover contraception services under the health care reform law brings to mind Groucho Marx\u2019s definition of politics: \u201cThe art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christian mega-pastor Rick Warren is willing to engage in civil disobedience. The National Association of Evangelicals is reportedly considering asking pastors of every evangelical denomination to read an open letter to their congregations calling the requirement to make birth control for women available without co-pays an attack on religious liberty \u2014 despite an exemption for religious institutions affiliated with faiths that forbid contraception. Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, insists there is \u201cno compromise.\u201d<\/p>\n

As an evangelical leader, I\u2019ve been involved in defending religious freedom for three decades. Compromise is not always a moral failure in a pluralistic society. In an election year, we must also distinguish between real attacks on faith and cheap demagoguery to score political points. GOP presidential candidates who have been assailing President Obama\u2019s supposed \u201cwar on religion\u201d should be ashamed of themselves. This irresponsible and inflammatory rhetoric makes a mockery of the victims of real wars and unconscionable religious persecution around the world.
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by Rev. Richard CizikHuffington Post The fierce backlash from some evangelical Christian leaders to President Obama\u2019s sensible decision to cover contraception services under the health care reform law brings to mind Groucho Marx\u2019s definition of politics: \u201cThe art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.\u201d Christian mega-pastor Rick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nWhat War on Religion?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"by Rev. 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