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burning_phoneix on 02 July 2014
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Aielyn said:
-CraZed- said:
You are right being employed by someone doesn't allow them to enforce their beliefs on you. How does not paying for someone elses contraceptives amount to forcing your religious views on someone? Forcing your employees to pray to Mecca =/= not paying to abort someone's indescretion in their personal life (which I thought we wanted other people out of anyways).

The idea here is that currently under US law it is legal to kill your unborn baby before it has fully incubated in the womb (state law dependant) but that employers have the right to not pay for it. In what way is this an employer forcing their religion on someone? In fact, were they to affirm the opposite of the ruling,  THAT would be forcing ones views upon another.

As someone above me has already pointed out, everybody has to pay for things they don't morally support. Your tax dollars pay for capital punishment, war, and farm subsidies, among other things. You can refuse to pay taxes... by living entirely off the land by your own, etc, and refusing to use any public facilities. Otherwise, the government spending some of your taxes on things that you do not personally support is part of the price of living in a society.

And in this case, you're required to pay for your employees' medical insurance, some of which might cover things that you do not, personally support. But you see, you're not actually paying for the specifics of the coverage, you're paying for "medical insurance", just like you're paying "tax" and not "war support money".


Paying taxes= Government

Paying for health insurance= Private enterprise.

 

Private Enterprise=/=Governemnt.

 

Stop using tax money and "I didn't want to pay for the Iraq war" an excuse. The government is a public democracy with public representives voted by and endorsed by a majority of the electorate to manage a nation. Private companies are privately owned entities, you don't vote for them, you are not forced to work FOR them, you are not a CITIZEN of a corpration. You do NOT PAY A CORPRATION TAXES....THEY PAY YOU A SALARY.

That changes the argument significantly.