richardhutnik on 13 August 2012
| Soleron said: It's easily solved by saying no one's rights have priority over any others, so your right to religious belief that contraception is wrong doesn't extend to stopping others' right to access contraception. Religious rights are not special, they are a specific case to freedom of thought and speech, but that doesn't mean freedom of action or a right to dictate how things are going to be. |
The issue isn't that the Catholic Church is trying to ban insurance period for covering birth control, just that Catholic employers MUST provide it. It goes from religious beliefs to property rights issues. Do employers have a right to do what they want with their own property or not?
You can't take the easy way out by say no one's rights have priority over any other, because in this case, the issue requires one person's rights to have priority over another one. And you ended up placing religious rights lower than other rights.
