{"id":43258,"date":"2014-03-26T16:59:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T16:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_ap_article_on_the_supreme_court_hobby_lobby_case\/"},"modified":"2014-03-26T16:59:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T16:59:07","slug":"the_ap_article_on_the_supreme_court_hobby_lobby_case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43258","title":{"rendered":"The AP Article on the Supreme Court Hobby Lobby Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seemingly divided, the Supreme Court struggled Tuesday with the question of whether companies have religious rights, a case challenging President Barack Obama&#8217;s health overhaul and its guarantee of birth control in employees&#8217; preventive care plans.<\/p>\n<p>Peppering attorneys with questions in a 90-minute argument, the justices weighed the rights of for-profit companies against the rights of female employees. The discussion ranged to abortion, too, and even whether a female worker could be forced to wear an all-covering burka.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome could turn on the views of Justice Anthony Kennedy, often the decisive vote, as his colleagues appeared otherwise to divide along liberal and conservative lines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/healthcare\/2023218987_apxsupremecourtbirthcontrol.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seemingly divided, the Supreme Court struggled Tuesday with the question of whether companies have religious rights, a case challenging President Barack Obama&#8217;s health overhaul and its guarantee of birth control in employees&#8217; preventive care plans. Peppering attorneys with questions in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43258\">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":[39,40,50,513,209,589,149,104,114,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-americau-s-a","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43258","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=43258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}