{"id":6250,"date":"2014-03-28T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6250"},"modified":"2014-03-27T12:57:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T17:57:15","slug":"does-the-pope-shop-at-hobby-lobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6250","title":{"rendered":"Does the Pope Shop at Hobby Lobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, but he does seem to be watching their Supreme Court case.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Pope Francis and Vatican officials on Thursday told U.S. President Barack Obama they were concerned about &quot;religious freedom&quot; in the United States, an apparent reference to the contraception mandate in Obama&#8217;s health care plan.<\/p>\n<p>The talks included &quot;discussion on questions of particular relevance for the Church&quot; in the United States, including &quot;the exercise of the rights to religious freedom, life and conscientious objection,&quot; a Vatican statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s 2010 healthcare law, widely opposed by Republicans, includes a provision that requires employers to cover the cost of contraception in their health insurance plans.<\/p>\n<p>Catholic and other religious groups say the mandate forces them to support contraception and sterilization in violation of their religious beliefs or face steep fines.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Just wondering if all those Democrats who have been falling all over themselves over the Pope when he seems to be saying something they like (whether or not he&#8217;s <em>actually<\/em> saying what they think he&#8217;s saying) will take note of this rather obvious political stance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, but he does seem to be watching their Supreme Court case. Pope Francis and Vatican officials on Thursday told U.S. President Barack Obama they were concerned about &quot;religious freedom&quot; in the United States, an apparent reference to the contraception mandate in Obama&#8217;s health care plan. The talks included &quot;discussion on questions of particular relevance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,30,27,9,26,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholicism","category-christianity","category-democrats","category-doug","category-politics","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}