Team Obama’s Topsy-Turvy Rhetoric Escalates the War on Faith

Ken Blackwell, Contributing Author: A favorite tactic of the Obama Administration is to engage in outrageous behavior, and then – with the support of its allies – put its opponents on the defensive by accusing them of engaging in the conduct of which it is in fact guilty.

So, for example, the Administration takes far-out positions on social issues— then labels as “extreme” anyone who stands up for mainstream values. The White House promotes monetary policies that destroy jobs– and then attacks the business community for driving “income inequality.”

The latest example of this “jujitsu” maneuver involves the Health and Human Services contraceptive mandate under the Affordable Care Act. The mandate tramples on the religious freedom of religiously-affiliated organizations like the Little Sisters of the Poor and model employers like Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood, by attempting to force them, under the threat of crippling IRS fines, to participate in the provision of potentially life terminating drugs that violate their deeply held religious beliefs.

Yet several opinion pieces over recent weeks have – incredibly – charged these entities with “discriminating” against workers on religious grounds based on their legal challenges of the regulation.