While Fox News has covered birth control for its female employees prior to the HHS birth control mandate, it obviously doesn't want all women to have the same benefit via "Obamacare." Fox was fully supportive of Catholic bishops who objected to the requirement that those nasty slut pills be provided to employees of Catholic colleges and Catholic charity organizations and Catholic employers. For months, there was at least one weekly Fox & Friends segment supporting the Church's claim that the mandate violated their religious liberty. Fox's Fr. Jonathan Morris said that he would be willing to die in opposition to the mandate which Fox talkers falsely claimed would include abortion inducing drugs. Now that the Baptists have filed a suit against the administration, over the mandate, Fox is there to assist with the same lies and propaganda because, well, religious liberty violations because, well, Obamacare. And who better to talk about laws affecting lady parts than Tucker Carlson and a male representative of the Southern Baptist church who is concerned about "the sexual revolution." (And Fox News says there's no war on women?)
On this morning's Fox & Friends, deeply religious (just joking, he hates the Episcopal Church) famous "dick" Tucker Carlson immediately framed the propaganda message with the question: "Is religious freedom under attack by the Obama administration and what makes this lawsuit so important?" He introduced his guest, Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Liberty Commission. In case you didn't get the message, Carlson reinforced the propaganda with his next question which deftly morphed to right wing memes - religious liberty and evil Obamacare: "How does Obamacare impinge on your religious liberty?" The visual for the piece was "Eyes on Obamacare."
Moore said that "it requires groups and organizations to pay for contraceptive devices, abortifacient drugs in ways that violate our consciences." Good Christian Moore is lying because emergency contraception, provided under the mandate, does not induce abortions. Actual abortion inducing drugs are not covered. The chyron framed the agitprop message: "Religion under attack, southern Baptists vs. Obamacare." According to Moore, his religion compels people to "live their lives a certain way" and as such, "these rules do not reflect the way that we have run our lives as Americans in the past respecting one another's consciences." The chyron provided, as Fox fact, "Faith Under Fire, 3 Religious Organizations Suing Gov't Over Obamacare."
More Carlson propaganda: "They don't provide any exemptions for religious liberty. They're forcing it on you whether you want it or not." Moore complained that religious organizations are defined very narrowly and don't "reflect the way that religious people live out their lives." (Like the Duggars?) He explained that while churches are exempt; but not business owners "who are motivated by their religious consciences." The chyron reinforced the message: "Contraception & Constitution Lawsuit: ACA Violates Religious freedom."
When Moore said it's "damaging" to our country, Carlson asserted that "it's damaging to non-profits who do charity work." Engaging in the patented right wing Obamascare rhetoric, Carlson asked if this will cause these groups to shut down. Moore said "absolutely" and preached that "religious liberty is under assault all over the place in this country in ways that I think are probably more pronounced than we have seen since the founding era." He claimed that people who do good works, based on "religious convictions are being driven out of the public square because they won't sing out of the hymn book of the sexual revolution." (Moore is saying that only single sluts would take advantage of the free birth control because married Baptists eschew birth control?) He whined that "we can't live this way as Americans."
Under the Obama administration's compromise, "contraception is covered separately with insurers picking up the upfront costs of those policies." That "means that religiously affiliated nonprofits don’t bear any cost for coverage, nor do they have to deal with administering plans that provide such coverage." That wasn't mentioned but why should facts interfere with the propaganda!