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Top House Republican vows legislation to overturn Obama rule mandating birth control

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Top House Republican vows legislation to overturn Obama rule mandating birth control coverage | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

From the Republican presidential candidates to top GOP lawmakers in Washington, party leaders are engaging in a full-court press against the Obama Administration's decision to force employers affiliated with religious groups to offer health care insurance plans to workers that cover birth control free of charge, even if the action contradicts the employer's religious beliefs.


In a rare move for someone in his office, House Speaker John Boehner, Republican of Ohio, took to the floor of the chamber on Wednesday to discuss a legislative plan to overturn the decision. Calling the rule "an unambiguous attack" on faith-based groups, Boehner said the House would begin work on a bill immediately.


"If the president does not reverse the department's attack on religious freedom, then the Congress, acting on behalf of the American people, and the Constitution that we're sworn to uphold and defend, must," Boehner, a Catholic, said. "The House will approach this matter fairly and deliberately through regular order and appropriate legislative channels."

The Republican establishment is preparing to make the 2012 election about religion. With the economy being the top concern of most Americans, this is not going to end well.
 
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Top House Republican vows legislation to overturn Obama rule mandating birth control coverage | The Ticket - Yahoo! News



The Republican establishment is preparing to make the 2012 election about religion. With the economy being the top concern of most Americans, this is not going to end well.

Them challenging this decision means that republicans are going to make the entire 2012 election about religion?
 
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The gift that keeps on giving LOL.
 
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Them challenging this decision means that republicans are going to make the entire 2012 election about religion?

The Republican establishment makes their campaigns about religion regardless of what year it is. In 2008, they made it about Obama's religion. In 2004, they made it about gay marriage. In 2000, they made it about family values. In 1998, they made the congress elections about Clinton's infidelity and how it went against Christian values. The list just keeps on going on how and what issues the religious right has chosen to make almost every important election about.
 
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Top House Republican vows legislation to overturn Obama rule mandating birth control coverage | The Ticket - Yahoo! News



The Republican establishment is preparing to make the 2012 election about religion. With the economy being the top concern of most Americans, this is not going to end well.

Would say your premise is a bit of a stretch. At least at this point in time. The GOP is contesting a controversial bill being forwarded by Obama.

Your contention that this action equates to "making the 2012 election about religion" is quite a leap, eh....??
 
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The Republican establishment makes their campaigns about religion regardless of what year it is. In 2008, they made it about Obama's religion. In 2004, they made it about gay marriage. In 2000, they made it about family values. In 1998, they made the congress elections about Clinton's infidelity and how it went against Christian values. The list just keeps on going on how and what issues the religious right has chosen to make almost every important election about.


Am going to go out on a limb and suggest that you seem to view the world through very filtered lenses...
 
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Am going to go out on a limb and suggest that you seem to view the world through very filtered lenses...

Disagree all you want, it's a fact that Republicans will make any election about religion to pander to their largest group: "The (protestant) silent majority".
 
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Top House Republican vows legislation to overturn Obama rule mandating birth control coverage | The Ticket - Yahoo! News



The Republican establishment is preparing to make the 2012 election about religion. With the economy being the top concern of most Americans, this is not going to end well.

What, fighting illegal dictates from the boy king is a bad move politically? Should they be trying to out borrow and spend money we don't have with Obama to show they "care" about people?
 
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Would say your premise is a bit of a stretch. At least at this point in time. The GOP is contesting a controversial bill being forwarded by Obama.

Your contention that this action equates to "making the 2012 election about religion" is quite a leap, eh....??

Not a stretch when we have some on the right here saying Obama is attacking Catholics. Again, they are making it about religion.
 
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They won't have to. Obama is going to back off this.
 
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Clearly because decreasing access to healthcare for poorer couples is a move that benefits this country. Especially on the astoundingly flimsy logic that a few people whose religious beliefs (not even all Catholics mind you, and exactly zero of the Catholics I've ever asked) require them to not use birth control means that they have to stop others from using it as well.

How about we keep our eyes on the ball and work on doing something about all this poverty?
 
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More "cowbowing" to the Religious Right.

Seriously, keep selling out to the Bible Thumping RR and pretty soon we will all be living in a religious state. Ridiculous.

Boehner is such a beatch to the RR.
 
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THIS issue is partially about religion. So if they republicans speak on a issue concerning religion then they are making the entire 2012 election about religion. And your reply is but they talked about clintons indescretions before too? Yes there have been religious issues in every election, that does not mean that republicans have made every election about religion. Are you even able to see an entire picture?
 
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More "cowbowing" to the Religious Right.

Seriously, keep selling out to the Bible Thumping RR and pretty soon we will all be living in a religious state. Ridiculous.

Boehner is such a beatch to the RR.



I must have missed the part where you have to be conservative or a republican to be religious or care about issues involving religion. I wish I had gotten that memo.
 
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I must have missed the part where you have to be conservative or a republican to be religious or care about issues involving religion. I wish I had gotten that memo.

It's only the religious issues dealing with forcing their views on morality on others that attracts the interest of the evangelist Conservative "base" of the GOP. Apparently they are worried that faith and fear of God is not enough to enforce their opinions, they want it made the law of the land. Like Sharia.
 
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It's only the religious issues dealing with forcing their views on morality on others that attracts the interest of the evangelist Conservative "base" of the GOP. Apparently they are worried that faith and fear of God is not enough to enforce their opinions, they want it made the law of the land. Like Sharia.

Liberal religious people force their faith on others just as much. Dont give me that crap.
 
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Wow... partisan hackery at its finest. There's no denying that some of the GOP platform involves religion - could this because a portion of their constituents vote based on religious values? Gee, I wonder. Not capitalizing on religion means you aren't playing politics properly.

I support what Obama did regarding the insurance plans because it supports my personal values, but I cannot deny that he has basically forced this birth control issue down the throats of the religious. Why target them so specifically like this? The GOP are fighting back because they are the party of the Christian right, did you expect anything less?

I fail to see how this means the 2012 platform will be all religion, when it never has been in the past. Social hotbutton issues always come up but they are hardly what the election revolves around.
 
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How about we keep our eyes on the ball and work on doing something about all this poverty?

You mean like we've been doing for the last 50 years?
 
Re: Top House Republican vows legislation to overturn Obama rule mandating birth cont

Wow... partisan hackery at its finest. There's no denying that some of the GOP platform involves religion - could this because a portion of their constituents vote based on religious values? Gee, I wonder. Not capitalizing on religion means you aren't playing politics properly.

I support what Obama did regarding the insurance plans because it supports my personal values, but I cannot deny that he has basically forced this birth control issue down the throats of the religious. Why target them so specifically like this? The GOP are fighting back because they are the party of the Christian right, did you expect anything less?

I fail to see how this means the 2012 platform will be all religion, when it never has been in the past. Social hotbutton issues always come up but they are hardly what the election revolves around.

It's too bad more arguements can't be presented like this one. There is simply now way to have much of any arguement here. To say that one supports something but also realizes the problems that support causes but all the same, you support it is a valid position IMO even when if I disagree with the position.

I can argue about the possible ramifications and you would likely agree but I can't argue your position.
 
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It's only the religious issues dealing with forcing their views on morality on others that attracts the interest of the evangelist Conservative "base" of the GOP. Apparently they are worried that faith and fear of God is not enough to enforce their opinions, they want it made the law of the land. Like Sharia.

Said the guy who argued that we should tax people for doing things he doesn't like.
 
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Said the guy who argued that we should tax people for doing things he doesn't like.




What are you talking about?
 
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This looks more in line with the drumbeat that Republicans have been doing since the ramp up to the 2010 election...making the issue one of government intrusion. Be it intrusion into the private sector by giving bailouts or enhacing regulation, intrusions into personal and business freedoms with regards to Obamacare, intrusions into how the military functions with regards to DADT repeal, and on and on. This just goes along with that same drum beat, suggesting intrusions into religious freedoms now.
 
Re: Top House Republican vows legislation to overturn Obama rule mandating birth cont

Wow... partisan hackery at its finest. There's no denying that some of the GOP platform involves religion - could this because a portion of their constituents vote based on religious values? Gee, I wonder. Not capitalizing on religion means you aren't playing politics properly.

I support what Obama did regarding the insurance plans because it supports my personal values, but I cannot deny that he has basically forced this birth control issue down the throats of the religious. Why target them so specifically like this? The GOP are fighting back because they are the party of the Christian right, did you expect anything less?

I fail to see how this means the 2012 platform will be all religion, when it never has been in the past. Social hotbutton issues always come up but they are hardly what the election revolves around.

The answer to the highlighted question is simple. Liberals hate religion because it interferes with their own beliefs...and they see the Catholics as an acceptable target in their war against religion. Add to that the support they hope to bolster from their base in an election year and it all comes down to...politics.
 
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