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[quote=Anonymous][quote=TheManWithAUsername] You somehow missed/avoided the main point, which is that this is in [b]their collateral activities[/b]. Why don't you take a crack at my rhetorical questions - [b]why can't the Church start a hotel that discriminates against blacks or a factory that pollutes?[/b] Or do you think that they should be allowed to?[/quote] TheManWithAUsername are you really equating Catholic Hospitals, who treat all regardless of means to pay, with 'polluting factories' and 'hotels that discriminate against blacks'? Perhaps you are using argumentum ad populum? Social justice is a central tenant of Catholicism, and treating the poor, feeding the poor, teaching the youth, etc. are all 'collateral activities' that the Catholic Church engages in and financially supports - and you equate that with racism and pollution? Seriously? [quote=TheManWithAUsername]If the majority doesn't like this aspect of the health care law, then I guess it will be amended.* Until then, it stands as the expression of the society's values.[/quote] So, when a majority stood for Jim Crow that was just fine, just wait until society's values changed? So slavery was fine too until society changed its mind? Personally I believe that it will be a sad day indeed when government intervention causes Catholic Hospitals to close rather than violate their core principles, Catholic schools to close rather than provide instruction that violates their core principles, and Catholic Charities to close because government mandates that they must violate their core principles. A previous poster - not The Man - indicated that employees were too stupid to know they were applying for work with and working for a Catholic institution. Because the employees were too stupid, we need the government to mandate to the Catholic institutions how they need to behave, to protect the poor stupid workers. Really? If our schools are turning out graduates that stupid, perhaps we need to focus on education, and not the reproductive and family planning benefits the Catholic Church will offer to its employees? [/quote]
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