Earlier this month, the Obama administration issued updated guidelines for the health care reform legislation’s contraception mandate, expanding the guidelines under which religious-based non-profit organizations could qualify for an exemption.
But it was all for naught, as the Religious Right unanimously rejected this new compromise out of hand as a continued funding of abortion. As Mat Staver declared on “Faith and Freedom” radio, the entire concept of requiring contraception coverage just demonstrates “a radical commitment to death” on the part of the Obama administration.
In fact, Staver asserted that “it’s no different” than what Floyd Corkins, the man who attacked the Family Research Council headquarters, wanted to do, saying “this administration is rubbing the aborted babies in the face of every single American,” which prompted Barber to agree that this “is sickening and it’s evil”:
