{"id":1287,"date":"2012-01-21T23:27:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T23:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.wordpress.com\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2012-01-21T23:27:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T23:27:29","slug":"homeschool-basketball-polarized-obamacare-contraception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1287","title":{"rendered":"homeschool basketball; polarized; Obamacare; contraception…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liz and I attended our kids’ Homeschool Basketball League games last night in Harrod, Ohio.\u00a0 Both Sarah and Joseph’s\u00a0games were quite\u00a0spirited.\u00a0 Afterward one of the other parents approached me and wanted to talk politics out in the hall.\u00a0 He said he was torn about who to back in the Republican Primaries.\u00a0 I said I was torn too. (Just kidding.)\u00a0 He said he, like many others, wondered if any of these candidates could beat President Obama.\u00a0 I said the whole thing, it seemed to me, was getting way<\/em> too polarized.\u00a0 For instance no matter what President Obama does, the Republican knee-jerk response seems to be that it’s “all<\/em> wrong.”\u00a0 I mean, is there an “adult in the room”?\u00a0 Common sense says he’s done some good things and some not so good things, and there’s been all sorts of complex shades of grey inbetween.\u00a0 Just like with any of us.\u00a0 For instance, the spirit of his healthcare plan seems to be helping get healthcare insurance to those on the lower end of the socio-economic spectrum.\u00a0 And I believe that sentiment is good (although I disagree with the type of approach).\u00a0 However a decidedly ‘not so good thing’ in the shades of grey in Obamacare, I believe,\u00a0is that the L.A. Times today reported that Catholic hospitals, universities and other religious institutions\u00a0are “mandated”\u00a0to offer health plans that provide contraception benefits at no cost to their members.\u00a0 The Times said the American Catholic Bishops were infuriated and this was a direct attack on religion and First Amendment rights.\u00a0 I’d have to agree.\u00a0 No matter what one feels about artificial contraception, the Catholic Church teaches it is counter to God’s Natural Law, and a “serious sin.”\u00a0 Thus, it’s my belief the “conscience clause” should, indeed, be applied here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liz and I attended our kids’ Homeschool Basketball League games last night in Harrod, Ohio.\u00a0 Both Sarah and Joseph’s\u00a0games were quite\u00a0spirited.\u00a0 Afterward one of the other parents approached me and wanted to talk politics out in the hall.\u00a0 He said …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}