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I swear it must come down to employees working for religious affiliated entities and businesses violate their conscience. How long will it be before the demand the right to fire or discipline employees who do not act in accordance to their religion. If the Catholic Church run schools can fire teachers for getting pregnant out of wedlock, being gay, having an abortion, getting fixed or having sex outside of marriage an remain unappeased employees can get fired for not acting according to the religious convictions of their employer.
Cases coming before SCOTUS area claiming that no amount of accommodation to ACA is enough. If they won't allow any accommodation for ACA what do they want employees using family planning to do. Will religious beliefs become part of government policy. The Obama administration is being attacked for not allowing these same organizations to discriminate LGBT individuals claiming that Obama's executive order interferes with their religious freedom.
There are religions that believe in genital mutilation, marriage as low as 11 years old, stoning adulterers etc. Where will this twisted nonsense end.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)ck4829
(35,057 posts)It's NOT conscience if you have one moral system guiding how you *get* money and another guiding how you *spend* it. I guess corporations don't have to worry about cognitive dissonance even though they're supposed to be considered people.
They're not even enforcing morality, they're enforcing amorality.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)This is about forcing religion down an individual's throat. This is about putting one set of beliefs above another. Women are speaking out so violently because they are the canary in the coal mine and are treated as second class citizens in most religions. Women have only been able to make gains in a secular society.
David Green and his wife have been married for thirty years yet only have three children. How is that possible?