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By Sarah Posner - Today, the Washington Examiner published an op-ed from Mitt Romney, "President Obama versus Religious Liberty"...
...As I wrote on the night of the Florida primary, and as I predicted earlier in January, these supposed liberal attacks on "religious liberty," and in particular, the contraception requirement [of the Affordable Care Act], would become an essential theme of the 2012 presidential campaign.
Romney, fighting off Newt Gingrich's campaign theme that he is a "Massachusetts moderate," today jumps on the bandwagon in hopes of sealing the deal with religious conservatives
Romney Accuses Obama of Stifling Religious Liberty by Requiring Health Insurance to Cover Contraceptives
Seeded on Fri Feb 3, 2012 5:08 PM EST
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This is the same Mitt Romney who could barely utter a word about religious freedom for his own faith when it was under assault by some of his fellow conservatives. Now that he's expected to be his party's nominee, he feels compelled to take up its most potent religion crusade this year: the claim that religious institutions who are opposed to contraception should get a special exemption from the requirement of the Affordable Care Act that employers provide contraceptive coverage to their employees, free of co-pays. Even those religious institutions which have been, without complaint, providing contraceptive coverage to their employees for years.
Gotta' play the Religious Right role if he wants the nomination.
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#1 - Fri Feb 3, 2012 5:12 PM ESTI suspect his pandering to the religious right may get him some votes. However I do not think most people agree with them. I sure as heck do not.
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The reason given in The Book of Mormon for the practice of polygamy, then, is by revelation from God in order to "raise up seed unto [God]." The private practice of polygamy, or more accurately, polygyny, was instituted in the 1830s by founder Joseph Smith, Jr. The public practice of polygamy (“plural marriage”) by the church was announced and defended in 1852 by one of the Council of the Twelve Apostles, Elder Orson Pratt,[2] by the request of the church President at that time, Brigham Young.
More women ya marry.. more offspring .. the family on tv with 20 kids and counting.. would fit right in..
"Religious Liberty" for him is not the same for everyone else.. he's complaining about contraception.. I'd rather push contraception than to have 100 Romneys walking around.
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#2 - Fri Feb 3, 2012 7:18 PM ESTI have said it 100 times before- get out of my uterus, get out of my bedroom, get out of my relationship and now you can get out of my medicine cabinet.
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#3 - Fri Feb 3, 2012 7:19 PM ESTGet these political @!$%#s off the stage! After the Komen debacle, I'm done, finished, vote everyone who has any religious overtones OUT!
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