{"id":31353,"date":"2012-03-14T16:30:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T16:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bp_poll-most_americans_back_religious_exemption_to_hhs_mandate\/"},"modified":"2012-03-14T16:30:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T16:30:52","slug":"bp_poll-most_americans_back_religious_exemption_to_hhs_mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31353","title":{"rendered":"(BP) Poll&#8211;Most Americans back religious exemption to HHS mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A majority of Americans say religiously affiliated organizations &#8212; such as hospitals and universities &#8212; should be exempt from the Obama administration&#8217;s abortion\/contraceptive mandate, according to a CBS News\/New York Times poll.<\/p>\n<p>The survey found that by a 57-36 percent margin, U.S. adults believe religious organizations should be allowed to &#8220;opt out&#8221; of covering birth control for their female employees. The poll did not use the word &#8220;abortion,&#8221; although Christian leaders say the mandate would require them to cover contraceptives that can cause chemical abortions.<\/p>\n<p>The poll also found that 51 percent of adults believe that any employer &#8212; and not just the ones with religious ties &#8212; should be able to opt out if they find such coverage objectionable based on religious or moral beliefs. Forty percent disagree.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpnews.net\/bpnews.asp?id=37383\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A majority of Americans say religiously affiliated organizations &#8212; such as hospitals and universities &#8212; should be exempt from the Obama administration&#8217;s abortion\/contraceptive mandate, according to a CBS News\/New York Times poll. The survey found that by a 57-36 percent<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31353\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,175,101,168,104,114,96,98,616,151,667,108,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-marriage-family","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}