It has a minimal impact on it, sure. But the mandate, unfortunately, would not have ever become an issue had a religious exemption been put in place to begin with. This became a bigger issue because of the religious issue, and that's what the hearing was about, and that's what the opponents care about. The left can't win that argument, so the end result is to ignore the Constitutional issue and play gender politics again.
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Date: 2012-03-05 10:32 pm (UTC)