{"id":12995,"date":"2012-02-13T11:54:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T16:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12995"},"modified":"2012-02-13T11:54:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T16:54:55","slug":"religious-freedom-fight-in-historical-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12995\/religious-freedom-fight-in-historical-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Freedom Fight, in Historical Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>J. Christian Adams has <a href=\"http:\/\/biggovernment.com\/jcadams\/2012\/02\/13\/obama-steamrolled-by-catholic-church\/\">an eloquent commentary<\/a> today on the import of the Obama Administration&#8217;s latest effort in its war against traditional Christianity, and on the resistance to it from well-motivated people of all faiths.<\/p>\n<p>One key passage is here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The real reason the White House was steamrolled is that the Left doesn\u2019t  understand what it is up against.\u00a0 Rachel Maddow, for example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/rachel-maddow-the-gop-war-on-birth-control\/2012\/02\/10\/gIQAbZ734Q_story.html\">thinks<\/a> people of faith oppose the Obama mandate because it provides \u201ca convenient  partisan cudgel to use against Democrats.\u201d\u00a0 To Maddow, profound religious  conviction couldn\u2019t explain the backlash.\u00a0 Instead, \u201cpartisan cudgels\u201d provide  an explanation more familiar to her.<\/p>\n<p>Consider further the always caustic and usually wrong Eric Boehlert of the  Soros-funded Media Matters.\u00a0 Boehlert <a href=\"http:\/\/it.twitter.com\/#%21\/EricBoehlert\/status\/167343871976673280\">says<\/a> the fight with the churches \u201cfeels like 1962, we\u2019re arguing over \u2018birth control\u2019  in 2012.\u201d\u00a0 Boehlert doesn\u2019t understand this fight isn\u2019t about birth control, but  religious freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Boehlert doesn\u2019t understand that the usual Leftist tactic of mockery and  ridicule won\u2019t work on these opponents.\u00a0 Name calling is nothing compared to  what faith communities are willing to endure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As many others have noted, the president&#8217;s &#8220;compromise&#8221; announced Friday is no compromise at all. It&#8217;s still an authoritarian violation of religious freedom. And it still is part of a larger war by the administration, one which, fortunately, it has been losing, as in the 9-0 shellacking the Supreme Court gave to Obama in the <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/42-constitution-and-legal\/1266-supreme-court-saves-religious-liberty-from-obama\"><em>Hosanna-Tabor <\/em>case<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This president has no regard for freedom, and none for traditional Christian or Jewish faith. He is dangerous. It&#8217;s a good thing, as Adams points out, that faith and freedom are not so easily cowed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J. Christian Adams has an eloquent commentary today on the import of the Obama Administration&#8217;s latest effort in its war against traditional Christianity, and on the resistance to it from well-motivated people of all faiths. 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