{"id":12529,"date":"2012-05-21T18:37:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T22:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=12529"},"modified":"2012-05-21T18:37:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T22:37:51","slug":"sensible-conscience-clause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2012\/05\/sensible-conscience-clause\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensible conscience clause"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  At 11 a.m. Eastern time today, 43 Catholic dioceses and organizations \u2014 including Our Sunday Visitor and the University of Notre Dame \u2014 filed religious liberty lawsuits against the federal government in a dozen different jurisdictions around the country.<\/p>\n<p>  At issue are regulations that require Catholic organizations, employers and insurers to provide or facilitate abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization and contraception \u2014 in violation of their consciences.<\/p>\n<p>  Equally troubling is the extreme narrowness of the government\u2019s new test for determining which religious organizations are exempt from this mandate \u2014 which would appear to exclude Catholic schools, health care facilities, charities and others like Our Sunday Visitor. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osvdailytake.com\/2012\/05\/breaking-catholic-diocesesorganizations.html\">source<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fr. Jenkins of the University of Notre Dame comments <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2012\/05\/comments-on-the-lawsuit-by-the-president-of-the-university-of-notre-dame.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The speaker who received an honorary doctor of laws degree at the University of Notre Dame\u2019s 164th University Commencement Ceremony would not release a full statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/obama-notre-dame.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/obama-notre-dame-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"obama-notre-dame\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12530\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/obama-notre-dame-300x167.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/obama-notre-dame.jpg 502w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But he did say how is that &#8220;sensible conscience clause&#8221; working out for you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 11 a.m. Eastern time today, 43 Catholic dioceses and organizations \u2014 including Our Sunday Visitor and the University of Notre Dame \u2014 filed religious liberty lawsuits against the federal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12532,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12529\/revisions\/12532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}