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I'd say 'yes'. Restricting religious freedom isn't always wrong, but there should be a compelling reason.
Why should someone's religion excempt them from the laws of a country that they are in?
That has to be determined by the Supreme Court.
But it seems clear that the government should not be telling religions what to do any more than religions should be telling governments what to do. Both must be held in check.
Why should someone's religion excempt them from the laws of a country that they are in?
Our constitution prohibits laws that arbitrarily infringe on religion. Requiring Muslim or Jewish restaurants to serve pork serves no public purpose, nor does requiring a self-insured Catholic organization to provide birth control serve a public purpose.
Our constitution prohibits laws that arbitrarily infringe on religion. Requiring Muslim or Jewish restaurants to serve pork serves no public purpose, nor does requiring a self-insured Catholic organization to provide birth control serve a public purpose.
No infringment has taken place. No one is forced to use contracptions. The ones likely to use it, do so of their own free will and are not clergy.
No infringment has taken place. No one is forced to use contracptions. The ones likely to use it, do so of their own free will and are not clergy.
They are asking the Church to pay for contraceptives. If someone is using them of their own free will, as you say, then let them pay for it.
It is not those that use the benefit that are being forced, it is those forced to provide that benefit that is being challenged. Surely, even you, can see that simple fact.
No, I'm asking them to pay for insurance.
They are asking the Church to pay for contraceptives. If someone is using them of their own free will, as you say, then let them pay for it.
They are self insured now. Why would the government interfere in any way?
And how are contraceptives expected to cure anything?
No one at all is forcing anyone to use the contraceptives so your question is not equal. A better question would be if there was a law forcing all restaraunts [sic] to offer pork on the menu and every restaurant was required to offer it, should muslims be excempt? I'd say no. Again no one is forcing any one to use contraceptives.
Of course, if you think (even ignoring any religious issues) that any level of government ought to have the power to require all restaurants to serve pork, then you are missing the point entirely.
The question for me is not whether or not it serves a public service. The question for me is whether or not a persons religion should exempt them from the law. I do not think a person's religion should exempt them from the law, nor should it get them any special rights or treatment from the government. That is not equality.
This is about health insurance not religion.
Not everyone who works in Cathlolic hospitals is Catholic... and most Catholics use some form of BC anyway.
This is not a matter of exempting religious people from the law. This is a case where the law itself is unconstitutional. Try to keep up.
This is a matter of exempting the church. Have you read through this thread or did you just skip to the end?
I've read it all through, and suggest you do the same. The issue at hand is whether the regulation is legal.
You have it wrong though. It is about business and institutions that are not chuches can be exempt from the law. Nothing in that has much at all to do with the constitution.
So the Catholic institutions close, and those employees have neither a job, or health coverage. That make you happy?
Or, the other solution is to simply fire all non Catholics, and only treat baptised Catholics.
Good job.
J-mac
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So the Catholic institutions close, and those employees have neither a job, or health coverage. That make you happy?
Or, the other solution is to simply fire all non Catholics, and only treat baptised Catholics.
Good job.
J-mac
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Around 80% or more of Catholics use birth control of some form or another. It is a very small minority of Catholics that have an issue with this law, and those would be the ones who probably feel it is their business to mandate what others do with their bodies just because of their own beliefs.
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