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[quote=RantingAtheist][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually this sudden burst of issues on this is because the economy is getting better and now it is not clear that the republicans can beat Obama on jobs 9the economy is doing a little better and it is possible by November will be doing much better) so instead they turn to the issues of abortion and contraception and try to swing votes in that way. The republicans can rely on the religious and others that hate women to join in the melee. [/quote]

No the sudden burst of issues is because Obama's HHS issued a rule that requires religious organizations who have never paid for birth control to start doing so. 
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Actually, many states have similar regulations. Not only that, but the Supreme Court agrees:

[quote]The [liberal, Carter-appointed] justice authored the majority opinion in the 1990 decision Employment Division v. Smith, a critical precedent to the birth control case, decreeing that religious liberty is insufficient grounds for being exempt from laws. The Supreme Court said Oregon may deny unemployment benefits to people who were fired for smoking peyote as part of a religious tradition, seeing as the drug was illegal in the state.

“To permit this would be to make the professed doctrines of religious belief superior to the law of the land, and in effect to permit every citizen to become a law unto himself,” wrote the justice[/quote][/quote]

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