Considering the Claim that President Obama Has Waged "War on Religion”

On NPR, Barbara Bradley Hagerty examines why many Republican presidential candidates as well a number of Catholic bishops and conservative advocacy groups are advancing the claim that the Obama administration has waged a “war on religion.”  This hyperbolic rhetorical tone may reflect, in significant part, anxiety about the implications of the increasing legal recognition of LGBT rights, through legislative initiatives and judicial rulings, for the religious entities that assert a faith-based imperative to exclude gay persons from marriage and parenthood.   

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