Rubio: There Will Never Be a Truce on Social Issues

Speaking to conservative bloggers this morning prior to his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., Florida senator Marco Rubio continued to make the case against the Obama administration’s mandate that all private insurance plans must cover contraception, sterilization procedures, and abortifacients without any cost to their employees.

“This is not about contraception. This is about a constitutional right of religious expression and religious freedom in the United States,” Rubio said. “This is not a partisan issue. This isn’t even left versus right,” he continued, pointing to the growing opposition to the mandate by Democrats such as Senators Bob Casey, Ben Nelson, Joe Manchin, and Joe Lieberman.