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Religious conservatives play culture war defense

February 6, 2012
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Photo - U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, center, speaks at the Seattle Planned Parenthood branch on Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, in Seattle, Wash. Murray had planned to discuss Susan G. Komen Foundation's recent decision to rescind their funding to Planned Parenthood's breast exam services, but Komen announced a reversal of their decision early Friday morning. (AP Photo/TheSeattle Times, John Lok)
U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, center, speaks at the Seattle Planned Parenthood branch on Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, in Seattle, Wash. Murray had planned to discuss Susan G. Komen Foundation's recent decision to rescind their funding to Planned Parenthood's breast exam services, but Komen announced a reversal of their decision early Friday morning. (AP Photo/TheSeattle Times, John Lok)

Between the media's uproar after a cancer-research charity temporarily suspended grants to the nation's leading abortion provider, and the Obama administration's recent decision to force Catholic schools to pay for 100 percent of their employees' contraception, the last two weeks have helped clarify the shape of the culture war in America today.

The battleground is this: The Secular Left is on the offensive, while the oft-demonized Religious Right is mostly playing defense, trying to preserve the liberty of religious adherents to conduct their lives according to their own consciences.

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