Religious people do not have to use birth control but when they stand int he way of others using birth control, however they stand in the way, it is a limitation on freedom.
And if the exemption did that, I would likely end up on your side. Not having someone else pay for your contraception does not stand in the way of you getting or using birth control.
Jeff, because this is a common theme one sees over and over in your arguments. Liberal interference in the lives of others on the basis of their ideology (taxes for social welfare programs, limitation on hate speech) are horrible to you yet conservative interference in the lives of others based on their ideology (demanding limiting abortion laws, religious groups determining who gets access to birth control) seems just fine because you jigger the idea that limiting religious expression is a worse limitation than permitting religion to dictate the behaviors of non-believers or even believers who deviate from that specific idea.
If you think I'm in favor of religious arguments being used to actively create legislation to ban certain practices, you've completely misread me. The government should be neutral on religion, period - this means not putting in mandates that would impact them negatively as well as not bowing to their pressure to create laws that would impact the secular world negatively.
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Date: 2/3/12 22:20 (UTC)And if the exemption did that, I would likely end up on your side. Not having someone else pay for your contraception does not stand in the way of you getting or using birth control.
Jeff, because this is a common theme one sees over and over in your arguments. Liberal interference in the lives of others on the basis of their ideology (taxes for social welfare programs, limitation on hate speech) are horrible to you yet conservative interference in the lives of others based on their ideology (demanding limiting abortion laws, religious groups determining who gets access to birth control) seems just fine because you jigger the idea that limiting religious expression is a worse limitation than permitting religion to dictate the behaviors of non-believers or even believers who deviate from that specific idea.
If you think I'm in favor of religious arguments being used to actively create legislation to ban certain practices, you've completely misread me. The government should be neutral on religion, period - this means not putting in mandates that would impact them negatively as well as not bowing to their pressure to create laws that would impact the secular world negatively.