{"id":40588,"date":"2013-10-17T15:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ct_a_major_provider_of_church_health_benefits_takes_on_federal_government_f\/"},"modified":"2013-10-17T15:00:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T15:00:20","slug":"ct_a_major_provider_of_church_health_benefits_takes_on_federal_government_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40588","title":{"rendered":"(CT) A Major provider of church health benefits takes on federal government for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The massive retirement and health benefits arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, GuideStone Financial Services, has made good on its threat to pivot from advocacy to litigation in defending beleaguered church health plans.<\/p>\n<p>In its first-ever federal lawsuit, GuideStone has partnered with The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and Locke Lord LLP to file a class-action lawsuit against what Becket described as &#8220;the federal government&#8217;s mandate that [GuideStone clients] provide employees with free access to abortion-inducing drugs and devices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/gleanings\/2013\/october\/guidestone-southern-baptists-becket-fund-hhs-contraceptive.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The massive retirement and health benefits arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, GuideStone Financial Services, has made good on its threat to pivot from advocacy to litigation in defending beleaguered church health plans. In its first-ever federal lawsuit, GuideStone has<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40588\">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":[48,39,40,42,513,589,149,104,114,154,184,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40588","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=40588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}